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Updated: June 4, 2025
I have never deceived you; but one thing I have hitherto concealed from you because I was never till this morning sure of it myself now I am. Now I know that I love him." "The Christian?" said the old woman, pushing aside a shade that screened her eyes. "Yes, Constantine; I will not hear you abuse him." Damia laughed sharply, and said in a tone of supreme scorn: "You will not?
Damia struck the floor with her crutch and, interrupting the indignant matron with a spiteful laugh, exclaimed: "Ha, ha! The saintly Mary's most saintly son! Such wonders do not happen every day! Here, Dada here; take this ring, it has been worn by a woman who once was young and who has had many lovers. Close come close, my sweet child."
Rapture and anguish who can lay down the border line that divides them? Smiles and tears alike belong to both. And you are weeping? Aye, aye poor child! Come here and kiss me." Damia drew the head of the kneeling girl close to her bosom and pressed her lips to Gorge's brow.
You are silent you will not say? . . . Oh! I understand it all. He I know he would never have ventured it. But it is your 'noble lady Damia' that old woman, who has told you what to say. You are her echo, and as for Marcus. . . . Confess, confess at once, you witch. . . ." "Sachepris is only a poor slave," said the woman raising her hands in entreaty.
"He cannot help it," interrupted Damia with decisive abruptness. "He can do nothing to save his mother, any more than you can help being a child of twenty and bound to hold your tongue till your opinion is asked." The family of musicians had all met on board the barge which was lying at anchor in the lake, off the ship-yard.
An unpleasant misunderstanding had embittered his parting from Gorgo; old Damia, as she held his hand had volunteered a promise that she and her granddaughter would from time to time slay a beast in sacrifice on his behalf. Perhaps she had had no spiteful meaning in this, but he had regarded it as an insult, and had turned away angry and hurt.
The entrails of the beast sacrificed by Damia had been black as though scorched, and a terrific groan had been heard from the god himself in the great shrine; the pillars of the great hypostyle had trembled and the three heads of Cerberus, lying at the feet of Serapis; had opened their jaws. Gorgo listened in silence to the old woman's story; and all she said in reply was: "Let them wail."
The merchant advised him to wait and see what came of it, as did Damia and Gorgo who were attracted to the spot by the vehemence of the discussion; but Karnis would not be detained, and he and Orpheus hurried off to the rescue.
But after all she, Damia, had dragged this grief after her through the weary decades, like the iron ball at the end of a chain which keeps the galley-slave to his place at the oar, and from which he can no more escape than from a ponderous and ever-present shadow; and Gorgo's sorrow could not at any rate be for long, since the end of all things was at hand it was coming slowly but with inevitable certainty, nearer and nearer every hour.
The venerable Damia, her son Porphyrius, and the fair Gorgo were in fact a trio such as are rarely met with.
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