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Updated: June 27, 2025
“Whom should she spite? whom contradict?” cried Agellius, thrown for the moment off his balance. “O Callista! Callista in prison for Christianity! Oh if it’s true that she is a Christian! but what if she is not?” he added with great terror, “what if she’s not, and yet in prison, as if she were? How are we to get her out, uncle? Impossible! no, she’s not a Christian—she is not at all.
By this time it had left the stony bottom, and was rising up the side of the precipice. Brushwood and dwarf pines covered it, mingled with a few olives and caroubas. He said out his seven pater nosters as he walked, and then looked around. He had just passed a goatherd, and they looked hard at each other. Agellius wished him good morning.
There is a famous Christian retreat on the north of the city, and by this time, I doubt not, or rather I know, it is full of refugees. The fury of the enemy is extending on all hands, and our brethren, from as far as Cirtha round to Curubis, are falling back upon it. The only difficulty is how to get round to it without going through Sicca.” “Let us go together,” said Agellius.
“I’ll give him the stick worse than Rupilius, if he does not,” said Arnobius. “A bargain,” cried Jucundus; and, waving his hand to them, he stept through the city gate, and they returned to their afternoon amusements. Agellius is busily employed upon his farm.
And then his thoughts came back to his poor Agellius, and all those hundred private matters of anxiety which the foes of the Church, occupied only with her external aspect, little suspected. For Agellius, he prayed, and for his; for the strange wayward Juba, for Jucundus, for Callista; ah! that Callista might be brought on to that glorious consummation, for which she seemed marked out!
“That’s just what I don’t want to be,” said Agellius. “I mean to say,” he continued, “that if I thought it inconsistent with my religion to think of Callista—” “Of course, of course,” interrupted his uncle, who took his cue from Juba, and was afraid of the workings of Agellius’s human respect; “but who knows you have been a Christian? no one knows anything about it.
She was absorbed in her own misery in an intense sense of degradation, in a keen consciousness of the bondage of nature, in a despair of ever finding what alone could give meaning to her existence, and an object to her intellect and affections. And Agellius on the other hand, what surprise, remorse, and humiliation came upon him!
Agellius, too, had already expressed a misgiving himself on that head; so far they were agreed.
And, to tell the truth, it was a very difficult transaction for a young man; and giving our poor Agellius all credit for pure intention and firm resolve, we really should have been very sorry to see him involved in a trial, which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the detachment of a saint.
Nay, not a few of their mystic or esoteric class have conformed.” “If so, unless Agellius looks sharp,” said Jucundus, “his sect will give him up before he gives up his sect. Christianity will be converted before him.” “Oh, don’t fear for him!” said Arnobius; “I knew him at school. Boys differ; some are bold and open.
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