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caesar's apostasy.
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Julian.
Ah, but they did not get it!
Gregory.
They got it, Julian.
Julian.
Oh, Jesus!
Basil.
Horrible! And Clemazius?
Gregory.
The death-warrant was sent to the governor, Honoratus. That weak man dared not disobey so high a command. Clemazius was thrown into prison and executed early next morning, without being suffered, my mother writes, to open his lips in his own defence.
Julian.
[Pale, in a low voice.] Burn these dangerous letters; they might bring us all to ruin.
Basil.
Such open violence in the midst of a great city Where are we; where are we?
Julian.
Aye, you may well ask where we are! A Christian murderer, a Christian adulteress, a Christian!
Gregory.
Denunciations will not mend this matter. What do you intend to do?
