Of the former man no characteristic remained but the
expression of the stern, mournful eyes; and these, the truthful
interpreters of the indomitable mind whose emotions they seemed created
to express, preserved, unaltered by suffering and unimpaired by time,
the same look, partly of reflection, partly of defiance, and partly of
despair, which had marked them in those past days when the temple was
destroyed and the congregations of the Pagans dispersed.
But the repose at this moment demanded by his worn-out body was even yet
denied to it by his untamed, unwearied mind, and, as the voice of his
old delusion spoke within him again, the devoted priest rose from his
solitary resting-place, and looked forth upon the great city, whose new
worship he was vowed to overthrow.
'By years of patient watchfulness,' he whispered to himself, 'have I
succeeded in escaping successfully from my dungeon among the mines. Yet
a little more cunning, a little more endurance, a little more vigilance,
and I shall still live to people, by my own exertions, the deserted
temples of Rome.
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