A week before the day set for her wedding, in a bright hour of early April, Hera rode forth from the park of Villa Barbiondi. Following the margin of the river, she trotted her horse to where the shores lay coupled by a bridge of pontoons-an ancient device of small boats and planking little different from the sort C sar's soldiers threw across the same stream. She drew up and watched the strife going on between the bridge and the current-the boats straining at their anchor-chains and the water rioting between them.
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