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"Take me to my hermitage!" he screamed. "I renounce the bishopric. Take me to my hermitage!" "Amen," responded the demon, and, assuming his proper shape, he took Pachymius upon his back and flew away with him amid the cheers of the multitude.
"Imagine, my dear friend," returned the Governor, "who should turn up this evening but that sordid anchorite Pachymius, to whom the see was promised indeed, but who was reported to have been devoured by vermin in the desert.
I know thee who thou art, the demon who brought me hither on his back yesterday." "I thought it had been an angel," said the Governor. "A demon in the disguise of an angel of light," said Pachymius. A tumultuous discussion arose among Pachymius's supporters, some extolling his fortitude, others blaming his wrongheadedness. "What!" said he to the latter, "would ye rob me of my reputation?
Shall it be written of me, The holy Pachymius abode in the precepts of the eremites so long as he dwelt in the desert where no water was, but as soon as he came within sight of a bath, he stumbled and fell?" "Oh, father," urged they, "savoureth not this of vaingloriousness? The demon in the guise of an angel of light, as thou so well saidest even now. Be strong. Quit thyself valiantly.
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