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His answer was received with a general laugh by all except the leader, who shrugged his shoulders. 'It may as well be up in the skies as up the Nile. We shall be just as likely, I believe, to reach it by flying, as by rowing up this big ditch. Ask him where the river comes from, Pelagia.
It is quite delightful to hear one's own accent again. Were you ever at Athens? 'When I was a child; I recollect that is, I think 'What? asked Pelagia eagerly. 'A great house in Athens and a great battle there and coming to Egypt in a ship. 'Heavens! said Pelagia, and paused.... 'How strange! Girls, who said he was like me?
There were the cave of S. Pelagia on Mount Olivet, the caves of S. Jerome, S. Paula, and S. Eustochium at Bethlehem, the cave of S. Saba in the ravine of Kedron, the remarkable cells hewn or found in the precipices of the Quarrantania or Mount of the Temptation above Jericho.
Well, well, wise men are like moorlands ride as far as you will on the sound ground, you are sure to come upon a soft place at last. However, I will go down to the guards to-morrow, if my head don't ache. 'And I will see the boy about Pelagia. Drink to our plot! And the two old iron-heads drank on, till the stars paled out and the eastward shadows of the cloister vanished in the blaze of dawn.
He was just weltering about in a dreary dream-jumble of Goths dancing with district visitors, Pelagia as an angel, with peacock's wings; Hypatia with horns and cloven feet, riding three hippopotami at once round the theatre; Cyril standing at an open window, cursing frightfully, and pelting him with flower-pots; and a similar self-sown after-crop of his day's impressions; when he was awakened by the tramp of hurried feet in the street outside, and shouts, which gradually, as he became conscious, shaped themselves into cries of 'Alexander's Church is on fire!
The attendants entered, and striking their hooks into corpse after corpse, dragged them out of sight, marking their path by long red furrows in the sand; while the dog followed, until his inauspicious howlings died away down distant passages. Philammon felt sick and giddy, and half rose to escape. But Pelagia!.... No he must sit it out, and see the worst, if worse than this was possible.
'Do you hear? cried the man with a curse. 'You are free. Jump up, or I shut the door again, and your one chance is over. 'Did she dance Venus Anadyomene? 'She! Who? 'My sister! Pelagia! 'Heaven only knows what she has not danced in her time! But they say she dances to-day once more. Quick! out, or I shall not be ready in time for the sports. They begin an hour hence.
He rushed down through the dense mass of spectators, leaped the balustrade into the orchestra below, and tore across to the foot of the stage. "Pelagia! Sister! My sister! Have mercy on me! On yourself! I will hide you! Save you! We will flee together out of this infernal place! I am your brother! Come!" She looked at him one moment with wide, wild eyes. The truth flashed on her.
Every street poured its tide of furious fanatics into the main river; and ere he could reach Pelagia's house the sun was set, and close behind him, echoed by ten thousand voices, was the cry of 'Down with all heathens! Root out all Arian Goths! Down with idolatrous wantons! Down with Pelagia Aphrodite! He hurried down the alley, to the tower door, where Wulf had promised to meet him.
Pelagia gazed down one moment more, and then, with a shriek which rang along roof and river, she turned, and fled down the stairs and out into the night. Five minutes afterwards, Philammon, dripping, bruised, and bleeding, was crawling up the water-steps at the lower end of the lane. A woman rushed from the postern door, and stood on the quay edge, gazing with clasped hands into the canal.
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