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Updated: May 25, 2025
You have only to talk to my hump-backed gardener Gibbus, or listen to what he says. When he is sitting with the rest of our people in an evening, they all laugh as soon as he opens his mouth. And why? Because his conformation makes him utter nothing but paradoxes. You know what they are?" "Certainly." "And you, Pul?" "No, Father."
Do you understand?" "Certainly," said Paula. "And you, Pul?" "I am not quite sure. I should be better pleased to be simply told: 'We ought not to have made such flattering speeches; they may vex a young girl." "Very good, my straightforward child," laughed her father. "But look, there is the man! Here, good Gibbus come here!
Just now "Pul" was longing less than usual to take the veil; for she had found in Paula a being before whom she felt small indeed, and to whom her unenvious soul, yearning and striving for the highest, could look up in satisfied and rapturous admiration. In addition to this, there were under her own roof two sufferers needing her care: Rustem, the wounded Masdakite, and the Persian girl.
I have been like a lamb among you through all this misfortune and serious trouble; but there is something more in me than that. You will be quite astonished!" "Nay, nay. Remain what you are," the widow said. "Always and ever full of love for you and Pul. But I am a grand and trusted person now! I have something very important to do for Orion to-morrow. Something Rustem will go with me.
It is the evil that Menahem did in the sight of the Lord, when he gave a thousand talents to Pul, King of Assyria, that his hand might be with him; Second Kings, feifteen chapter, nineteen verse. It is the evil deed of Ahab, when he sent money to Tiglath-Peleser; see the saame Second Kings, saxteen and aught.
Forgive an old man for such fatherly familiarity with the daughter of Thomas; hardly five years after my marriage with this good wife, not long after we had lost our only son, I left her and our little daughter, Pul there, for more than two years, to follow the Emperor Heraclius of my own free will to the war against the Persians who had done me no harm not, indeed, as a soldier, but as a surgeon eager for experience.
And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.
Just now "Pul" was longing less than usual to take the veil; for she had found in Paula a being before whom she felt small indeed, and to whom her unenvious soul, yearning and striving for the highest, could look up in satisfied and rapturous admiration. In addition to this, there were under her own roof two sufferers needing her care: Rustem, the wounded Masdakite, and the Persian girl.
By the next day she felt herself one of the household, though she every hour found something that could not fail to strike her as strange. When Paula had eaten with Rufinus and his family after the funeral ceremonies, she went into the garden with Pul and the old man it had been impossible to induce Perpetua to sit at the same table with her mistress.
Do you understand?" "Certainly," said Paula. "And you, Pul?" "I am not quite sure. I should be better pleased to be simply told: 'We ought not to have made such flattering speeches; they may vex a young girl." "Very good, my straightforward child," laughed her father. "But look, there is the man! Here, good Gibbus come here!
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