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"God knows women have softer hearts than men, and yet they more readily incline to think evil of their fellow-creatures, and particularly of the enemies of their faith. On the other hand they are more sensitive to kindness. A woman's hair is long and her wits short, says the saw." "You have plenty to say against us women!" retorted Neforis. "But scold away scold if it is a comfort to you!"
No less a personage than the Patriarch had arrived on a visit, and was now in conference with Neforis. Sebek, the steward, informed Orion that he had asked for him, and that his mother wished that he should immediately join them and pay his respects to the very reverend Father. "She wished it?" asked the young man, as he tossed his riding-hat to a slave, and he stood hesitating.
But, in the day of judgment, if I am not very much mistaken, it is not our acts but our feeling that will be weighed. It would ill-become me to blame you, but I may be allowed to pity you, for I see the disease in your soul which, like gangrene in the body..." "What next!" cried Neforis. "This disease," the physician calmly went on "I mean hatred, should be far indeed from so pious a Christian.
There had been a time when Katharina had been devoted to Neforis, regarding her as a second mother; when the governor's residence had seemed to her the epitome of all that was great, venerable, and illustrious; and when she had been proud and happy to be allowed to run in and out, and to be loved like a child of the family.
She made no reply; but when his mother repeated the question soon after, in a sharp voice, she she who had never in her life told a lie said with hasty decision: "I could not sleep, and the bark of the dog and a cry for help brought me here." "I call that having sharp ears!" retorted Neforis with an incredulous shrug.
But this you must permit, Orion you were quite right just now, Neforis; his mouth and brow might have been taken from his father's face." The remark was quite accurate; and yet it would have been hard to imagine two men more unlike than the bright youth full of vitality, and the languid old man on the couch, to whom even the small exertion of moving the men was an effort.
"You scapegrace, she confessed that you had quite turned her Katharina's little head this morning." "I am sorry for it," he interrupted in a tone of annoyance. "These ways with women have grown upon me as a habit; but I have done with them henceforth. They are unworthy of me now, and I feel, my dear Mother...." "That life is beginning in earnest," Neforis threw in.
She seemed indeed to be successful, for Dame Susannah agreed to everything she said; but she betrayed the fact that she was keeping a sharp watch by suddenly asking: "Does your husband's lofty niece not think us worthy of a single word?" "Oh no!" said Neforis bitterly. "I only hope she may soon find some other people to whom she can behave more graciously.
"What has happened?" cried his mother in some anxiety, for she concluded from his dishevelled hair and heated cheeks that the meeting had gone anything rather than smoothly. "Incredible things," he replied. "Paula fought like a lioness for her father's freedman. . ." "Simply to annoy us and put us in a difficulty," replied Neforis. "No, no, Mother," replied Orion with some warmth.
At this Paula, who had been watching the physician all through his speech, turned to Dame Neforis, and unclasped her hands which were lying in her lap, ready to shake hands with her uncle's wife if she only offered hers, though she was still fully resolved to leave the house. A terrible storm was raging in the lady's soul. She felt that she had often been unkind to Paula.
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