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'You will not send him to the captain Polidorus?' exclaimed ?none in affright. For at once the many atrocities of that man toward his slaves rose in her mind-how that he had slain one in a moment of passion-how that he had deliberately beaten another to death for attempting to escape to the catacombs-how that stripes and torture were the daily portion of the unfortunates in his power-and that, not by reason of any gross neglect of their duty, but for the merest and most trifling inadvertencies. Better death than such a fate.
'Pah! What can I do?' retorted Porthenus, skilfully touching the chord of her sympathies, as he saw how sensitive she was to its vibrations. 'It is true that Polidorus is no fawning woman, and that he greets his slaves with the rod and the brand, and what not. It is true that he thinks but little of sending one of them to Hades through the avenue of his fishponds. But that, after all, is his affair, and if he chooses to destroy his property, what should it matter to me? Am I so rich that I can afford to lose a fair purchaser because he may incline to hang or drown his bargain? Such self-denial may suit the governor of a province, but should not be expected of a poor centurion.
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