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Updated: June 3, 2025
At his favorite's concluding words, Horapollo had started to his feet with all the vigor of youth; he now snatched his hand down from his face, and exclaimed in a voice hoarse with indignation and the deepest concern: "And you can say that in earnest? Can a sensible man like you have sunk so deep in folly?
There they found the gardener and all the household, anxiously watching for the return of their belated mistress. Eudoxia too was waiting for them with some alarm. In the house they were met by Horapollo, but Joanna and Pulcheria returned his greeting with a cold bow, while Mary purposely turned her back on him.
The gardener knew full well how much depended on his silence; Philippus tacitly agreed to the old man's arrangement, but for the present he avoided discussing the matter with the women. When, at length he set off on his painful errand to the widow, Horapollo dismissed him saying: "Courage, courage, my Son.
I could see that as you were reading." "There take it!" replied Philippus; and again he walked up and down the room, while Horapollo took the letter. Both faces of the tablets were covered with irregular, up-and-down lines of writing to the following effect: "Rufinus, in view of death, to his beloved Philippus: "One shivering fit after another comes over me; I shall certainly die to-day.
"Sentenced! Merciful Heaven!" shrieked Pulcheria, and as she started up her mother cried out: "For God's sake do not jest about such things, it is a sin. Is it true? Is it possible? Those wretches, those . . . I see in your face it is true; they have condemned Paula." "As you say," replied Horapollo calmly. "The girl is to be executed."
Others followed his example, while several, on the contrary, sided with old Horapollo who clung tightly to Paula, preferring to die himself rather than allow her to escape his hatred and vengeance.
"Sentenced! Merciful Heaven!" shrieked Pulcheria, and as she started up her mother cried out: "For God's sake do not jest about such things, it is a sin. Is it true? Is it possible? Those wretches, those... I see in your face it is true; they have condemned Paula." "As you say," replied Horapollo calmly. "The girl is to be executed."
He has the key to the writing and the secrets of the ancients, and he has communicated to us the means of deliverance to which they resorted, when they suffered from such afflictions as have befallen us in these dreadful days; and this venerable man at my side, the wise and truthful Horapollo, will acquaint us with it.
"My old friend found it there." He pointed to Horapollo, who confirmed his statement by a nod of assent. The Kadi rose, went up to the girl, whose cheeks were pale with indignation, and asked whether she recognized the tablets as her property; Paula, after convincing herself, replied with a flaming glance of scorn and aversion at Horapollo: "Yes, my lord. It is mine.
When Horapollo entered the council-chamber he found the senators sitting on their ivory chairs with as much dignified calm as though the meeting had been uninterrupted; but at a sign from the president they all rose to receive the old man, and he returned their greeting with reserve, as homage due to him.
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