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He recognised the man at once as the same that he had seen beside the pool; and he looked to Paullinus even stranger and more dangerous than he had seemed before. He seemed too to be on his guard against some terror, and held in his hand a club, as though he were ready to use it. Presently he said a few words in a harsh voice: "You are a Roman," he asked; "how may I know it?"
I am sick at heart of the hard rule of these gods but I fear them, and will serve them faithfully till I die." And then he brought some skins of beasts and heaped them in a corner of the room for Paullinus, who lay down gladly, and from mere weariness fell asleep.
So Paullinus said that he would abide with them, but that he must first go and be made a priest after his own order; and he departed, but soon returned, and the Temple of Death was made a Church of Christians. Paullinus is an old man now; you may see him walk at evening beside the water, under the shadow of the church.
The priest looked very gently at Paullinus as he spoke; but there came a horrible roaring out of the den, and the beast flung himself against the bars as if in rage.
Mox, sc. when Paullinus and A. came to the rescue. Nec minus, etc. A remark worthy of notice and too often true. VI. Magistratus. The regular course of offices and honors at Rome. Per anteponendo. Enallage, cf. G. 15, note. R. Render: mutually loving and preferring one another. Nisi quod==but. Cf. ni, 4.
Paullinus, with such calmness as he could muster, for he felt himself to be in some danger, he scarcely knew what, mentioned the names of the villages. "Well, you have missed your way," said the man. "Why did you come here to the Temple of Death?" Paullinus had a sudden access of dread at the words. "Is this the Temple?" he said; "it is the place I was bidden to avoid."
Paullinus was like one in a dream at this sudden horror; but he kept his senses; once or twice the great beast moved, and drummed on the pavement with a horny paw. So Paullinus drew the prostrate body of the priest outside the screen and closed the door.
Then he called aloud once or twice; something seemed to stir in the house, and presently the light in the window was obscured by the head and shoulders of a man, who pressed to the opening; but there was no answer. Then Paullinus spoke very clearly, and said that he was a Roman, a traveller who had lost his way.
But Paullinus fell back into sleep again from utter weariness, as a man might dive into a pool.
Evidently of remotest antiquity, these crosses were traditionally assigned to Paullinus, who, according to the Venerable Bede, first preached the Gospel in these parts, in the early part of the seventh century; but other legends were attached to them by the vulgar, and dim mystery brooded over them.
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