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Updated: June 22, 2025
She must have revealed to that third person all that had previously passed between them and it was for this Melchite nun, his personal foe, that he was about to it was enough to drive him mad! But he could not withdraw; he had pledged himself to the brave old man to carry out this crazy enterprise.
He was determined to forget that his son wished to marry a Melchite and went on quickly: "Paula. . . . But no more of that. Remain faithful to your own creed otherwise. . . . However, child, seek your own road; you are but you will walk in the right way, and it is because I know that, know it surely, that I can die so calmly. "I have provided abundantly for your temporal welfare.
He stood looking at him, open-eyed and agitated, but undecided, and Benjamin went on with added vehemence: "I came to you to lift up my voice in protest, and I desire, I require, I command you: sever all ties with the enemies of your nation and of your faith, cast out your love for the Melchite Siren, who will seduce your immortal part to inevitable perdition...."
What would he have said to such a disgrace to his blood as your marriage to a Melchite, the daughter of those who caused your two brothers to be murdered? Oh! if the dead could. . . ." "He blessed our union on his death-bed," Orion put in. "Did he, indeed?" asked another Jacobite with sarcastic scorn. "Then the patriarch was in the right when he refused to let the priests follow his corpse.
Nilus was with all his soul a Jacobite; and the idea that his young master was about to risk everything for a party of Melchite nuns, and draw down upon himself the wrath and maledictions of the patriarch, was more than he could bear.
It was no secret that even her uncle's wife, worthy Neforis, did not care for her haughty niece and only suffered her to please the invalid. And what business had a Melchite at Memphis, under the roof of a good Jacobite? Every word the dragoman spoke breathed the scorn which a mean and narrow-minded man is always ready to heap on those who share the kindness of his own benefactors.
If her friend should succeed in prolonging her uncle's life, by a confidential interview with him she might win back his old affection and his good opinion. Her new home she felt was but a resting-place, a tabernacle in the desert-journey of her solitary pilgrimage, and she here meant to avail herself of the information she had gathered from her Melchite dependents.
Why, those Melchite dogs; you may ask all along the Nile, long as it is, who was at the bottom of any misfortune, and you will always get the same answer: Wherever the Melchite or the Greek sets foot the grass refuses to grow." "But the Mukaukas, the emperor's representative.... the Arab began. The Egyptian broke in however: "He, you think, must be safe from them?
Last evening it had seemed to her that it was her eldest son, who had died for the Jacobite faith, that was speaking to her. The voice had sounded like his, and it had warned her that the ancient house of Menas must perish, if a Melchite should taint the pure blood of their race.
I give you till then to come to a right mind, to think the matter over; and it is quite deliberately that I bid you to forget the Melchite. That you, of all men, should marry a heretic would be an abomination not to be borne. With regard to your alliance with the Arabs, and whether it becomes you being what you are to take service with them, we will discuss it at a future day.
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