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Perpetua smiled. "But you cannot lay a complaint without your kyrios, and your uncle is yours. Besides: before they have settled the matter the messenger may have been to Ctesiphon and back, far as it is." Again her nurse entreated her to have patience till the horse-fair should be over. Paula fixed her eyes on the ground.
When the mists clear away a little, he finds that Perpetua has gone over to where Mrs. Mulcahy is standing, and is talking still to that good Irishwoman. It is a whispered talk this time, and the few words of it that he catches go to his very heart.
What are two weeks, or at most three and then...." "But I shall die before then!" cried Paula. "The Nabathaean, you say, is here and willing to go." "Yes, Mistress." "Then we will secure him," said Paula resolutely. Perpetua, however, who must have discussed the matter fully with her fellow-countryman, shook her head mournfully and said: "He asks too much for us!"
Finally she yielded, chiefly for the sake of her father and Perpetua; but partly in the hope of still enjoying his society. She would remain in Memphis, at any rate for the present, under the roof of a friend of the physician's long known to her by report a Melchite like herself, and there await the further development of her fate.
He is so distinctly the professor still, in spite of his new mourning, and the better cut of his clothes, and the general air of having been severely looked after that Perpetua feels at home with him at once. "I have been here for some time," says she calmly. "A whole month, isn't it?" "Yes, I know. Were you going into that green little place. It looks cool." It is cool, and particularly empty.
At a small clerical meeting the two men had once held an argument that had been long remembered Fenton maintaining hotly the doctrine of an intermediate and purgatorical state after death, basing it entirely on a vision of Saint Perpetua recorded in the Acta of that Saint.
When the mists clear away a little, he finds that Perpetua has gone over to where Mrs. Mulcahy is standing, and is talking still to that good Irishwoman. It is a whispered talk this time, and the few words of it that he catches go to his very heart.
But then if an "old man of fifty" wasn't an old man of fifty The professor checks his thoughts, they are growing too mixed. "We should have been so happy," Perpetua is going on, her tone regretful. "We could have gone everywhere together, you and I. I should have taken you to the theatre, to balls, to concerts, to afternoons. You would have been so happy, and so should I. You would wouldn't you?"
He, the fluent speaker at lectures, and on public platforms, is now bereft of the power to explain one small situation. "What's the matter with Mr. Hardinge," asks Perpetua, "that he can't come here himself? Nothing serious, I hope?"
One small seat occupies the back of it, and nothing else at all, except the professor and his ward. "Perpetua!" says he, turning to her. His tone is low, impassioned. "I have come. I could not come sooner, and I would not write. How could I put it all on paper? You remember that last evening?" "I remember," says she faintly. "And all you said?" "All you said." "I said nothing. I did not dare.
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