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Updated: June 22, 2025
'Let her keep the jewels. Their owner has learnt, thank God, to despise and hate them! Let her keep the jewels and my curse! For God do so to me, and more also, if I ever see her face again! The old man had not heard the latter part of Philammon's speech.
'And such as you like, grumbled the old priest, as she swept up the steps, tossing some small coin to the ragged boys, and murmuring to herself, loud enough for Philammon's hearing, that she should certainly inform the confessor, and that she would not be insulted in the streets by savage monks.
So we may as well change the subject for the present, and he began overwhelming the old man with inquiries about himself, Pambo, and each and all of the inhabitants of the Laura to which Arsenius, to the boy's infinite relief, answered cordially and minutely, and even vouchsafed a smile at some jest of Philammon's on the contrast between the monks of Nitria and those of Scetis.
There is a philosophic pleasure in opening one's treasures to the modest young. Perhaps you will assist me by carrying this basket of fruit? And the little man jumped up, put his basket on Philammon's head, and trotted off up a neighbouring street.
At last, recovering himself, he recollected his errand, and again asked his way to the archbishop's house. 'This way, O youthful nonentity! answered the little man, leading the way round the great front of the Caesareum, at the foot of the obelisks. Philammon's eye fell on some new masonry in the pediment, ornamented with Christian symbols. 'How? Is this a church? 'It is the Caesareum.
And he pleaded so passionately and so sweetly, that the soft-hearted damsel, unable to resist so handsome a suppliant, undertook his errand, and led him up to the library, where Theon, pale as death, was pacing to and fro, apparently half beside himself with terror. Philammon's breathless message fell at first upon unheeding ears. 'A new pupil, sir!
For now, upon Philammon's memory flashed up in letters of light, old words forgotten for months and ere he was aware, he found himself repeating aloud and passionately, 'I believe in the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting,.... and then clear and fair arose before him the vision of the God-man, as He lay at meat in the Pharisee's house; and of her who washed His feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.... And from the depths of his agonised heart arose the prayer, 'Blessed Magdalene, intercede for her?
Breathless and exhausted by her exertion, she had fallen heavily before Philammon's strong arm; and lying half stunned for a while, recovered just in time to meet her doom. She knew that it was come, and faced it like herself. 'Take the witch! said Wulf slowly 'Take the corrupter of heroes the cause of all our sorrows! Miriam looked at him with a quiet smile.
So it was agreed to leave a few to watch for Philammon's coming out; and the rest, balked of their prey, turned the tide of their wrath against the Prefect, and rejoined the mass of their party, who were still hanging round his chariot, ready for mischief. In vain the hapless shepherd of the people attempted to drive on.
Impossible! his face had shown a desperate earnestness of terror as intense as Philammon's own.... Yet why did he not return? Perhaps he had found out that the streets were clear; their mutual fears groundless.... What meant that black knot of men some two hundred yards off, hanging about the mouth of the side street, just opposite the door which led to her lecture-room?
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