[The Emperor<br> Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link book
The Emperor
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CHAPTER XIII
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Then she exclaimed angrily: "It is infamous!" With these words she turned her back on Antinous and returned to her father's room, using her left foot, however, with caution, for it was very painful.
The young Bithynian gazed in silence at Selene's tall, slight form, he felt prompted to follow her, to say to her how very sorry he was for the mischance that had befallen her, and that the hound belonged not to him but to another man; but he dared not.

Long after she had disappeared from sight he stood on the same spot.

At last he collected his senses, and slowly went back to his room, where he sat on his couch with his eyes fixed dreamily on the ground, till the Emperor's call roused him from his reverie.
Selene had hardly vouchsafed Antinous a glance.

She was in pain not merely in her left foot, but also in the back of her head where she found there was a deep cut; but her thick hair had staunched the blood that flowed from the wound.

She felt very tired, and the loss of her pretty jug, which must also be replaced by another, vexed her far more than the beauty of the favorite had charmed her.
She slowly and wearily entered the sitting-room, where her father was by this time waiting for her and his water.


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