[Gutenberg 58099] • Mother of Pearl

Contents:

The procurator of Judaea.

Amycus and Celestine.

The legend of Saints Oliveria and Liberetta.

St. Euphrosine.

Scholastica.

Our Lady's juggler.

The mass of shadows.

Leslie Wood.

Gestas.

The manuscript of a village doctor.

Memoirs of a volunteer.

Dawn.

Madame de Luzy.

The boon of death bestowed.

A tale of the month of Floréal in the year II.

The little leaden soldier.

Excerpt from Mother of Pearl

Laelius Lamia, born in Italy of illustrious parents, had not yet discarded the toga praetexta when he set out for the schools of Athens to study philosophy. Subsequently he took up his residence at Rome, and in his house on the Esquiline, amid a circle of youthful wastrels, abandoned himself to licentious courses. But being accused of engaging in criminal relations with Lepida, the wife of Sulpicius Quirinus, a man of consular rank, and being found guilty, he was exiled by Tiberius Caesar. At that time he was just entering his twenty-fourth year. During the eighteen years that his exile lasted he traversed Syria, Palestine, Cappadocia, and Armenia, and made prolonged visits to Antioch, Caesarea, and Jerusalem. When, after the death of Tiberius, Caius was raised to the purple, Lamia obtained permission to return to Rome.

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