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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.
"I only wish she were here already," said Paula, "for who can say whether your mother, Orion the air here is perilously Melchite." "Leave Philippus and me to settle that. You should have seen how pleased Mary was." Then, drawing Paula aside, he hastily added: "Have I not hoped too much? Is your heart mine? Come what may, can I count on you on your love ?" "Yes, Yes!"
"I only wish she were here already," said Paula, "for who can say whether your mother, Orion the air here is perilously Melchite." "Leave Philippus and me to settle that. You should have seen how pleased Mary was." Then, drawing Paula aside, he hastily added: "Have I not hoped too much? Is your heart mine? Come what may, can I count on you on your lov-?" "Yes, Yes!"
Your father, I know, regarded my prophecy as advice given by me to receive the infidels as the instrument of the Almighty and to support them in driving the Melchite oppressors out of the land."
"I only wish she were here already," said Paula, "for who can say whether your mother, Orion the air here is perilously Melchite." "Leave Philippus and me to settle that. You should have seen how pleased Mary was." Then, drawing Paula aside, he hastily added: "Have I not hoped too much? Is your heart mine? Come what may, can I count on you on your lov-?" "Yes, Yes!"
Henceforth the Melchite or royalist patriarchs, who were appointed by the emperor and had the authority of civil prefects, and were supported by the power of the military prefect, are scarcely mentioned by the historian of the Koptic church. They were too much engaged in civil affairs to act the part of ministers of religion.
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 Neforis regarded the child's ardent love for her Melchite relation as exaggerated and morbid, imperilling perhaps her religious faith; and she fancied that under Paula's influence Mary had transferred her affections from her to the younger woman with added warmth.
So it was left to him to designate which convents should be suppressed, and he had, of course, begun by laying hands on the few remaining Melchite retreats, among them the Convent of St. Cecilia, next to the house of Rufinus.
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?
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