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to find her own best consolation; but her fond words of motherly comfort
CHAPTER XVI.
When Philippus had parted from Paula he had told her that the Mukaukas
yet struggle with death for weeks to come. This hope had comforted her;
Memphis, till she had become more intimate with the physician, should
could be more unlikely than that any one in Neforis' household--excepting
scarcely desired it; but she rebelled against the idea of forfeiting the
should succeed in prolonging her uncle's life.html">life.html">life, by a confidential
opinion.
Her new home she felt.html">felt was but a resting-place, a tabernacle in the
herself of the information she had gathered from her Melchite dependents.
Orion's presence alone hung like a threatening hail-cloud over the
of waiting at Memphis for the return of her messenger, nothing tied her
his life, at any rate from a distance. What she felt for him-and she
of her inner life, little as she would confess it to herself.
Her new hosts had received her as a welcome guest, and they certainly did
unpretentious it was comfortable and furnished with artistic taste. The
backed gardener and several children at work in it. A strange party-for
crippled.
The plot of ground--which extended towards the river to the road-way for
but narrow, and bounded on either side by extensive premises. Not far
connecting Memphis with the island of Rodah. To the right was the
left was an extensive grove, where tall palms, sycamores with spreading
shade. Above this bower of splendid shrubs and ancient trees rose a
to her, for she had often heard it spoken of in her uncle's house, and
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