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Updated: June 22, 2025
If only he could take her to the Capital he felt sure that all the world would stand still to turn round and gaze at her. And if she loved him if she met him open-armed.... Oh, why had spiteful fate made her a Melchite? But then, alas, alas!
Orion's fate was not to be decided till the following day; but it would hardly be to his advantage in the eyes of his Jacobite judges, that his betrothed was this Syrian Melchite.
Orion's fate was not to be decided till the following day; but it would hardly be to his advantage in the eyes of his Jacobite judges, that his betrothed was this Syrian Melchite.
A voice had warned her that in the house of God alone, could she find salvation for herself and her son; that voice she heard day and night, and much as it pained her to grieve him he must hear it now : That voice never ceased to enjoin her to tear asunder his connection with the Melchite maiden.
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.
Those present asked no better reason; as soon as the question of creed was raised the conversation, as usual in these convivial evenings, became a squabble over dogmatic differences; in the course of it a legal official ventured to opine that if the case had been that of a less personage than a son of the Mukaukas for whom it was, of course, out of the question of a mere Jacobite citizen and his Melchite sweetheart, for instance, some compromise might have been effected.
But she was a Melchite; he knew too how ill-affected his wife was towards her, so he kept his wish locked in his own breast in order not to vex the faithful companion who lived, thought, and felt for him alone; and Dame Neforis knew or guessed all this, and said to herself that it would cost him his night's rest if he were to be told at once what a concession Orion had made.
No Jacobite of Memphis would have dared to express her grief so publicly for the death of a Melchite; and as the chorus of voices swelled, the thought struck her with a chill that it must be her uncle and friend who had closed his weary eyes in death. It was with deep emotion and many tears that she perceived how sincerely the death of this righteous man was bewailed by all his fellow-citizens.
A voice had warned her that in the house of God alone, could she find salvation for herself and her son; that voice she heard day and night, and much as it pained her to grieve him he must hear it now : That voice never ceased to enjoin her to tear asunder his connection with the Melchite maiden.
Your admirable mother has told me, with tears in her eyes, of the abyss over which you are standing. It is your desire to bind yourself for life to a heretic, a Melchite and there is another thing which fills her pious mother's heart with fears, which tortures it as she thinks of you and your eternal welfare.
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