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When he had arrived there, a Spaniard's Indian servant, who was from that land of Pambo distant from here some ten leagues, and twenty from Xauxa, came to him saying that he had heard that troops had been assembled in Xauxa to kill the Christians who were coming, and that they had as captains Incorabaliba, Iguaparro, Mortay and another captain, all four being important men who had many troops with them, and the servant added that they had placed a part of this force in a village called Tarma five leagues from Xauxa in order to guard a bad pass that there was in a mountain and to cut and break it up in such a way that the Spaniards could not pass by.
The stately and courtly hospitality of Eastern manners, as well as the self-restraining kindliness of monastic Christianity, forbade the abbot to interrupt the stranger; and it was not till he had finished a hearty meal that Pambo asked his name and errand. 'My unworthiness is called Peter the Reader. I come from Cyril, with letters and messages to the brother Aufugus.
"Let me go! I am not discontented with you, but with myself. I knew that obedience is noble, but danger is nobler still. If you have seen the world, why should not I? Cyril and his clergy have not fled from it." Abbot Pambo sought counsel with the good brother Aufugus, and then bade Philammon follow him. "And thou wouldst see the world, poor fool?
Thither had they fled out of cities, out of a rotten, dying world of tyrants and slaves, hypocrites and wantons, to ponder undisturbed on duty and on judgment, on death and eternity. But to Philammon had come an insatiable craving to know the mysteries of learning, to see the great roaring world of men. He felt he could stay no longer, and on his return he poured out his speech to Abbot Pambo.
Peter looked at him for a moment with a right wicked expression, and then, to the youth's astonishment, struck him full in the face, and yelled for help. If the blow had been given by Pambo in the Laura a week before, Philammon would have borne it.
'Oh, take his warning.... And Philammon was bursting forth with some such words about the lake of fire and brimstone as he had been accustomed to hear from Pambo and Arsenius, when Pelagia interrupted him 'Oh, Miriam! Is it true? Is it possible? What will become of me? almost shrieked the poor child. 'What if it were true? Let him tell you how he will save you from it, answered Miriam quietly.
Is it not because thou art still trusting in thyself, that thou dost regret the past, which shows thee that thou art not that which thou wouldst gladly pride thyself on being? 'Pambo, my friend, said Arsenius solemnly, 'I will tell thee all. My sins are not yet past; for Honorius, my pupil, still lives, and in him lives the weakness and the misery of Rome. My sins past?
'Fearful, truly, said Peter, 'is that same lust of power: but for him, I have never trusted him since he began to be indulgent to those Donatists. 'Too true. So does one sin beget another. 'And I consider that indulgence to sinners is the worst of all sins whatsoever. 'Not of all, surely, reverend sir? said Pambo humbly. But Peter, taking no notice of the interruption, went on to Arsenius
'Thou art late, son, said the abbot, steadfastly working away at his palm-basket, as Philammon approached. 'Fuel is scarce, and I was forced to go far. 'A monk should not answer till he is questioned. I did not ask the reason. Where didst thou find that wood? 'Before the temple, far up the glen. 'The temple! What didst thou see there? No answer. Pambo looked up with his keen black eye.
Abbot Pambo, as well as Arsenius, had been dead several years; the abbot's place was filled, by his own dying command, by a hermit from the neighbouring deserts, who had made himself famous for many miles round, by his extraordinary austerities, his ceaseless prayers, his loving wisdom, and, it was rumoured, by various cures which could only be attributed to miraculous powers.
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