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Updated: May 21, 2025
The priest looked more sagacious than the musician; Marcus, the young Christian, had a most kind heart; there was not a better or gentler creature under the sun than Agne it was quite possible that Christianity was something very different in reality from what her foster parents chose to represent.
These are names, mere names that divide us; but if you were called anything else than Agne Ismene, for instance, or Eudoxia would you be at all different from what you are? There you see no, stay where you are you must listen while I tell you that Isis, the much maligned Isis, is nothing and represents nothing but the kindly influences of the Divinity, on nature and on human life.
However, his healthy vigor kept him lingering for many days and nights. On the last evening of his life he took Agne for a Muse, and calling to her to come to him seized her hand and sank back unconscious, never to move again.
Agne seemed to be blushing for her. The color rushed to her own cheeks, and shortly saying: "No after all, I think not," she turned her back on the old man and threw herself on the cushions close to where the wine-jug was standing.
Medius did not leave till near midnight and Herse then sent them all to bed. As soon as the slave had undressed her young mistress and left the girls alone, Dada threw herself into the arms of Agne who was on the point of getting into bed, and kissed her vehemently, exclaiming: "You are much so much better than I! How is that you always know what is right?"
Agne had volunteered to nurse him and had watched by his couch day and night. Eusebius had also brought Dada and Papias to visit them, and Dada had promised, on behalf of Marcus, that Agne and her brother should always be provided for, even in the event of the good Deacon's death.
"Till the next full moon!" murmured Agne, who had shuddered at her companion's rapturous ejaculations, and she glanced uneasily at Orpheus; but by the time Herse addressed her a minute or two later she had controlled the expression of her features, and the matron's heart was gladdened by her bright smile.
He had afterwards learnt from the girl that her parents were Christians and had settled in Antioch only a few years previously; but she had no friends nor relatives there. Agne had witnessed the attack on her father's house by the angry mob who had killed her parents, their two slaves, and her elder brother.
"No, she and Dada were in the garden on to which the room opened, and mother explained at once that though Agne was a Christian she was a very good girl, and that so long as she remained in our service she was bound to sing with us whenever she was required.
Papias was not at all frightened by the big man with his white beard, for a bright and kindly gleam shone in his eyes, and his voice was soft and attractive as he asked him whether he had such another ball and could toss it as cleverly as the fountain did. Papias said: "No," and Olympius, turning to Agne, went on: "You should get him a ball.
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