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Now it flashed across her mind, that Sirona was alone, and that the late visit of Hermas probably concerned her, and not the senator.
My friends, let us bow down before this saintly man!" The pilgrims obeyed his command. Paulus hid his face in his hands and sobbed out: "Wretch, wretch that I am!" And the pilgrims lauded his humility, and followed their leader who left the spot. Hermas had hastened onwards without delay.
"What was that?" she asked the youth, who stood before her in the full-dress uniform of a Roman officer, as handsome as the young god of war, though awkward and unsoldierly in his movements. "An owl screamed " replied Hermas.
"He wants to speak to the master, in a moment he will come in, and find me among these " thought she, and she involuntarily stroked her hand over her rough hair to smooth it, and threw a glance at the other slaves, in which hatred and contempt were equally marked. But Hermas came not.
But Stephanus was calling him, and without hesitation he returned to him and replied to his questions; indeed it was easier to him to speak than to listen, for in his ears there was a roaring, moaning, singing, and piping, and he felt as if drunk with strong wine. "If only Hermas does not forget to thank the Gaul!" exclaimed Stephanus.
An hour ago Miriam had been listening under Sirona's room; after betraying her to Phoebicius she had followed him at a distance, and had slipped back into the court-yard through the stables; she felt that she must learn what was happening within, and what fate had befallen Hermas and Sirona at the hands of the infuriated Gaul.
The senator stood still a moment and measured his companion with a glance. "You have been with your father ever since he came?" he asked. "He never lets me out of his sight;" replied Hermas. "I have been only twice into the oasis, even to go to the church." "Then you have been to no school?" "To what school should I go!
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He found the sick man in great anxiety, for he had waited until now for his son in vain, and feared that Hermas had met with some accident or had abandoned him, and fled out into the world. Paulus soothed him with gentle words, and told him of the errand on which he had sent the lad to the farther coast of the sea.
Paulus collected all the overflow of the old man's heart in one sentence, and called out his blessings through his two hands as a speaking-trumpet, after his friend's son as he departed to battle. Hermas understood; but deeply as he was touched by this farewell he answered only by dumb signs. A father can find a hundred words of blessing sooner than a son can find one of thanks.
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