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Updated: June 14, 2025
The subjects of our discourse were pomology, horticulture, botany, entomology, in all of which Deodatus seemed to be well versed; in everything pertaining to gardens and cattle-breeding he had reached a high standard. I could not conceal my surprise, and asked him where he had learned it. "From our father," answered Deodatus, with a sigh. "Who is that?"
So on they moved, the wildly-clad, barefooted Gauls, with locks streaming in the wind, still keeping in the rear. They reached the long, low farm-buildings belonging to Deodatus, a half-bred Roman Gaul, with a large vineyard and numerous herds of cattle. The place was wonderfully quiet.
'Lord Basil, your follower, Deodatus, is minded to fulfil the prophecy of his name, and tells me that it would be with your good will. Are you content to deprive yourself of his service, that he may continue to abide with us, and after due preparation, take the vows of our community? 'Content, was the reply, 'and more than content. If ever man seemed born for the holy life, it is he.
'Where is Felix? was Basil's first question. Felix was gone, but only to the town at the foot of the mountain, where he and two of his fellows would abide until their master left the monastery. With this message Deodatus had been charged by Venantius. He added that Felix had been dismissed, at the abbot's order, during Basil's interview with the king.
Had I known what lay upon your conscience, I should have withheld from you everything but Holy Writ. 'My man, Deodatus, had not spoken? asked Basil. 'Concerning you, not a word. I did not permit him to be questioned, and his talk has been only of his own sins.
His comrades were unarmed and intimidated. They rushed back to fetch weapons from the house of Deodatus, and there had been full time to take Columba safely home, Verronax and his dog stalking statelily in the rear as her guardians. "Thou shouldst have sought thine impregnable crag, my son," said the Senator sadly. "To bring the barbarian vengeance upon this house?" responded Verronax.
See Deodatus with his billing dear, Whose amorous mouth breathes love from ear to ear! "His works were not good enough to compensate for the mischief they did him. He spoke his own language with purity: he had some merit, but more conceit: and he made no use of the merit he had, but to make himself enemies."
He is a well-built man of over forty, with handsome features; he it is who arranges the terms of barter and shows visitors over the colony. When we arrived Deodatus received us with the kind cordiality one exhibits to old friends; the naturalist was a regular annual visitor.
And, he added more gravely, as if to himself rather than to the listener, 'God grant that my watch be found faithful. Thereupon the abbot rose, and gently took his leave; and Basil, through all the rest of the day, thought of him and of every word he had uttered. Not long after sunrise on the morrow, Deodatus was allowed to enter.
'In my lifetime I have seen much grief and little solace. All I loved are dead. 'But you are young. Could you without a pang say farewell to the world? Deodatus answered timidly: 'Here is peace. Continuing to question, Basil learnt that for this man the life of the world was a weariness and a dread.
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