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was taking it hard, said feeling suddenly tired and seeing that if this woman did agree with him it was
creditors: so miss euphemia gave up the house, and came inot cullerne. she took this rambling great
place because it was cheap at twenty pounds a year, and live, or half lived, from hand to mouth,
giving her niece the girl you saw all the grains, and keeepinjg the husks for herself. then a year ago
turned up her brother martin, penniless and broken, with paralysis upon him, he was harum scarum
need do well. dont stare at me with that saul among the prophets look; he never drank; he would have
been a better man if he had and the organist made a furhter call on the squat bottle. he would have
given her less bother if he had drunk, but he was always getting into debt and trouble, and then used
who lets rooms has to do if shes to keep the house decent, thats all im trying to do, decent called out
through the crack in the door, if you want to keep the house decent youll first have to give me notice
then he slammed the door shut, there was a gentle knocking to which he paid no more attention. He
egypt. have you any message for her no, said the lad, quite confounded. when did they go the day
before yesterday. and they are not coming back. for the next few years, certainly not. later may be, if
it is the lords pleasure. antinous left the garden by the public gate, unmolested, he was very pale, and
between the purpose and the deed selene and helios were baptized and two days after dame hannah
with her adopted children and mary, escorted by the presbyter hilarion and a deacon, embarked in the
harbor of mareotis on board a nile boat which was to convey them to their new home, the town of besa
in upper egypt. the deformed girl had hesitated as to her answer to the widows question whether she
would accompany her. her old mother dwelt in alexandria, and then but it was this then which helped
her abruptly to cut shoot all reflection and to pronounce a decided yes, for it referred to antionous, for a
few minutes it had seemed unendurable to think that she should never see him again, for she could not
help often thinking of the beautiful youth, and her whole heart ought to belong solely to the one who
had with his blood purchased peace for her on earth and bliss in the world to come. the day after being
same sentiment which beautified life to others had any one ever had more to suffer than she aye indeed
a vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it
had been hard to bear and yet, the savious of whom hellos had told her, ahd been for more severely
tried mankind, for whom he the son of god had come down upon earth, to save from misery and guilt,
had rewarded his loving kindness by hanging him on the cross. in him she could see a companiion in
suffering and she asked the widow to tell her all about him. selene had made many sacrifices to her
was no longer the same creature that she has been a few months since, and she longed for a remote
scene of a new and sanctified life, eumenes and hannah were in the right. it was not the widow but the
little blind boy who had won her to christianity. the childs influenec had proceeded in a strange course.
in the first instance the promises of the slave master that helias should some day meet his father again
in a shining realm among beautiful angels had a powerful effect on the blind childs tender heart and
vivid imagination. in hannahs house his hopes had received fresh nurture, and mary and the widow told
energy his favorite would look at him beseechingly, and though he made every effort to be of use to
him and to show him a cheerful countenance it was always with but brief success. even on the hunting
excursions into the libyan desert which the emperor frequently made, antinous remained apathetic and
indifferent to the pleasures of the sport to which he had formerly devoted himself with enjoymnet and
festivites and banquets, of the wordy war with the philosophers of the museum, of convering with the
ecstatic mystics, the soothsayers; astrologers and empirics with whom the place swarmed and the short
audiences which he accorded to the heads of the different religious communities, and the inspection of
the factoried and workshops of this centre of industry began to annoy him. one day he announced his
there was one who had redeemed the world, and taken on himself the sins of every repentant sinner.
after selene had once expressed to the widow her desire to be a christian, hannah brought the bishop to
see her. he himself undertook to instruct the girl and he found in her a disciple anxious and craving for
knowledge. just like those dried up and dull colored plants which, when they are plunged in water, open