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Updated: June 14, 2025
The Jew's thoughts, however, were soon turned into another channel by the hearty embraces of Majoricus and his son. 'We have caught you again, you truant! said the young Tribune; 'you could not escape us, you see, after all. 'Rather, said the father, 'we owe him a second debt of gratitude for a second deliverance. We were right hard bested when you rode up.
Majoricus, in his blunt, soldierlike way, set Raphael and Augustine at each other without circumlocution; and Raphael, after trying to smile and pooh-pooh away the subject, was tempted to make a jest on a seeming fallacious conceit of Augustine's found it more difficult than he thought to trip up the serious and wary logician, lost his temper a little a sign, perhaps, of returning health in a sceptic and soon found himself fighting desperately, with Synesius backing him, apparently for the mere pleasure of seeing a battle, and Majoricus making him more and more cross by the implicit dogmatic faith with which he hewed at one Gordian knot after another, till Augustine had to save himself from his friends by tripping the good Prefect gently up, and leaving him miles behind the disputants, who argued on and on, till broad daylight shone in, and the sight of the desolation below recalled all parties to more material weapons, and a sterner warfare.
'But you forget all this while, my friends, said Majoricus at last, 'the danger which you incur by sheltering proclaimed rebels. 'The King of kings has forgiven your rebellion, in that while He has punished you by the loss of your lands and honours, He has given you your life for a prey in this city of refuge.
It was by his advice that Majoricus had brought his soldiery hither; it was his proposal that they should be employed for a fixed period in defending these remote southern boundaries of the province; he checked the impetuosity of Synesius, cheered the despair of Majoricus, appealed to the honour and the Christianity of the soldiers, and seemed to have a word and that the right word for every man; and after a while, Aben-Ezra quite forgot the stiffness and deliberation of his manner, and the quaint use of Scripture texts in far-fetched illustrations of every opinion which he propounded.
And turning away, he rode silent and sullen by the side of his companions, who began at once to consult together as to the plans of Majoricus and his soldiers. In spite of himself, Raphael soon became interested in Augustine's conversation.
A heavenly glory seemed to bathe her from head to foot.... or was it tears sparkling in his own eyes?.... Then the grate and jar of the horse-hoofs on the road, as they pulled up suddenly.... He turned his face away and shut his eyes.... 'What are you? thundered a voice. 'Victoria, the daughter of Majoricus the Prefect.
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