I wish she were a Christian, for she is very dear to me, why should I deny it?
It is impossible to be sad when she is by, and she is devoted to me, and dreads my blame, and is always striving to win my approbation.

Certainly she tries to please every one, even the children; but, so far as I can see, not more Polykarp than any one else, although he is such a fine young man.

No, certainly not." "And yet the boy gazes at her," said Petrus, "and Phoebicius has noticed it; he met me yesterday when I came home, and, in his sour, polite manner, requested me to advise my son, when he wished to offer a rose, not to throw it into his window, as he was not fond of flowers, and preferred to gather them himself for his wife." The senator's wife turned pale, and then exclaimed shortly and positively, "We do not need a lodger, and much as I should miss his wife, the best plan will be for you to request him to find another dwelling." "Say no more, wife," Petrus said, sternly, and interrupting her with a wave of his hand.

"Shall we make Sirona pay, for it because our son has committed a folly for her sake?
You yourself said, that her intercourse with the children, and her respect for you, preserve her from evil, and now shall we show her the door?
By no means.

The Gauls may remain in my house so long as nothing occurs that compels me to send them out of it.
My father was a Greek, but through my mother I have Amalekite blood in my veins, and I should dishonor myself, if I drove from my threshold any, with whom I had once broken bread under my roof.