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'I wish to deliver my sister, a Christian, from the sinful embraces of an Arian heretic; and deliver her I will, or die! 'An Arian? laughed the Amal. 'Say a heathen at once, and tell the truth, young fool! Will you go with him, Pelagia, and turn nun in the sand-heaps?
And her voice took a tone which made it somewhat uncertain whether, in spite of all the lofty impassibility which she felt bound to possess, she did not hate Pelagia with a most human and mundane hatred. But at that moment the conversation was cut short by the hasty entrance of a slave girl, who, with fluttering voice, announced 'His excellency, madam, the prefect!
'Heaven forbid! said Arsenius. 'We must wait at least till Miriam's answer comes. 'I can show you her house at least in the meanwhile; and you can go in yourself when you will. I do not ask to enter. Come! I feel certain that my finding her is in some way bound up with Pelagia. Had I not met her on the Nile, had you not met her in the street, I might never have heard that I had a sister.
'Ah! treacherous wanton that you are! cried a young man's voice out of the murmuring crowd. 'After having plundered us of every coin out of which you could dupe us, here you are squandering our patrimonies on barbarians! 'Give us back our presents, Pelagia, cried another, 'and you are welcome to your herd of wild bulls!
'Who spoke to you, you stupid darling? answered Pelagia, who lived in hourly fear of thunderstorms. 'Who is going to be cross with any one, except I with you, for mishearing and misunderstanding, and meddling, as you are always doing? I shall do as I threatened, and run away with Prince Wulf, if you are not good. Don't you see that the whole crew are expecting you to make them an oration?
'No, no, whispered she in answer, 'I cannot, cannot he has forgiven me all, all! and I am his for ever! And now, just as he is in danger, when he may be wounded ah, heaven! would you have me do anything so base as to desert him? 'Pelagia, Pelagia, darling sister! cried Philammon, in an agonised voice, 'think of the doom of sin! Think of the pains of hell!
'I'm sure I don't know; some sort of slave's quill-driving, I suppose. 'Pelagia! do you know what philosophising is? 'No and I don't care. 'I do, quoth Agilmund, with a look of superior wisdom; 'I saw a philosopher the other day. 'And what sort of a thing was it? 'I'll tell you.
'I will go to the world's end with you, my king! sighed Pelagia; 'but Alexandria is certainly pleasanter than this. Old Wulf sprang up fiercely enough. 'Hear me, Amalric the Amal, son of Odin, and heroes all! When my fathers swore to be Odin's men, and gave up the kingdom to the holy Annals, the sons of the Aesir, what was the bond between your fathers and mine?
'Will not the Gospel save her from it unbelieving Jew? Do not contradict me! I can save her. 'If she does what? 'Can she not repent? Can she not mortify these base affections? Can she not be forgiven? Oh, my Pelagia! forgive me for having dreamed one moment that I could make you a philosopher, when you may be a saint of God, a
What did Athens care for her Athens?.... And yet Homer and Hesiod, and those old Orphic singers, were of another mind.... Whence got they that strange fancy of gods counselling, warring, intermarrying, with mankind, as with some kindred tribe? 'Zeus, father of gods and men..... Those were words of hope and comfort.... But were they true? Father of men? Impossible! not father of Pelagia, surely.
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