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They did not certainly injure his person; but they did worse, for when the Melchites rose up against our party it was at Alexandria, and the late Greek patriarch Cyrus had a finger in that pie they killed his two sons, two fine, splendid men killed them like dogs; and it crushed him completely." "Poor man!" sighed the Arab. "And has he no child left?" "Oh, yes.
"But still the Melchites are fellow-believers with you they are Christians," said the merchant. "Christians?" echoed the guide with a contemptuous shrug. "They may regard themselves as Christians; but I, with every one else great and small in this land, am of opinion that they have no right whatever to call themselves our fellow-believers and Christians.
My fellow-believers left every Christian fane untouched that I know from our chief Amru himself." "It was the principal church of the Melchites, the Emperor's minions," cried the guide, as if that were ample explanation of the fact. The merchant, however, did not take it so. "Well," he said, "and what is there so dreadful in their creed?" "What?" said the Egyptian, and his eye flashed wrathfully.
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