[Serapis Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookSerapis Complete CHAPTER XIV 14/17
What is your name ?" "Agne." "Agne, or the lamb.
A pretty, good name! It is a name I love, as I, too, am a shepherd, though but a very humble one, so trust yourself to me, little lamb.
Tell me, why are you crying? And whom do you seek here? And how is it that you do not know where to find a home ?" Eusebius spoke with such homely kindness, and his voice was so full of fatherly sympathy that hope revived in Agne's breast, and she told him with frank confidence all he wanted to know. The old man listened with many a "Hum" and "Ha"-- then he bid her accompany him to his own house, where his wife would find a corner that she might fill. She gladly agreed, and thanked him eagerly when he also told the doorkeeper to bring Papias after them if he should be found.
Relieved of the worst of her griefs, Agne followed her new friend through the streets and lanes, till they paused at the gate of a small garden and he said: "Here we are.
What we have we give gladly, but it is little, very little.
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