[The Bride of the Nile Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Bride of the Nile Complete CHAPTER XV 9/14
At length, with a sigh, he said, almost inaudibly: "So it was and so it is: The Greek oppressed my people with arbitrary cruelty as if we were dogs; the Moslem, too, is a stranger, but he is just.
That which happened it was out of my power to prevent; and it is well, it is very well that it turned out so .-- Very well," he repeated several times, and then he shivered and said with a groan: "My feet are so cold! But never mind, never mind, I like to be cool." The leech and the deaconess at once set to work to heat blocks of wood to warm his feet; the sick man looked up gratefully and went on: "At church, in the House of God, I have often found it deliciously cool and to-day it is the Church that eases my death-bed by her pardon.
Do you, my Son, be faithful to her.
No member of our house should ever be an apostate.
As to the new faith--it is overspreading land after land with incredible power; ambition and covetousness are driving thousands into its fold.
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