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IN the history I relate, the events are crowded and rapid as those of / the drama. I write of an epoch in which days sufficed to ripen the / ordinary fruits of years.
Meanwhile, Arbaces had not of late much frequented the house of Ione; / and when he had visited her he had not encountered Glaucus, nor knew he, / as yet, of that love which had so suddenly sprung up between himself and / his designs. In his interest for the brother of Ione, he had been / forced, too, a little while, to suspend his interest in Ione herself. / His pride and his selfishness were aroused and alarmed at the sudden / change which had come over the spirit of the youth. He trembled lest he / himself should lose a docile pupil, and Isis an enthusiastic servant. / Apaecides had ceased to seek or to consult him. He was rarely to be / found; he turned sullenly from the Egyptian -- nay, he fled when he / perceived him in the distance. Arbaces was one of those haughty and / powerful spirits accustomed to master others; he chafed at the notion / that one once his own should ever elude his grasp. He swore inly that / Apaecides should not escape him.