Book V - Snyder Bible

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cerning her sojourn with her most chaste hostess, and the
healing that he bad wrought upon her, and concerning the liberality
of Clement to those who bad been kind to his mother;
and how afterwards, when Niceta and Aquila asked who the
strange woman was, and had heard the whole story from Clement,
they cried out that they were her twin sons Faustinus
and Faustus; and how they had unfolded the whole history of
what had befallen them; and how afterwards, by the persuasion
of Kefa himself, they were presented to their mother with
caution, lest she should die by the sudden joy.
Chapter XXXVII: Another Recognition
But while Kefa was detailing these things in the hearing of
the old man, in a narrative which was most pleasing to the
crowd, so that the hearers wept through wonder at the events,
and through compassion for sufferings incident to humanity,
my mother, hearing (I know not how) of the recognition of my
father, rushed into the middle of us in breathless haste, crying
anus,
who has been so long afflicted, wandering from city to
she shouted thus like one demented,
and gazed around, the old man, running up, began to
embrace and hug her with many tears. And while these things
were going on, Kefa requested the crowds to disperse, saying
that it was unseemly to remain longer; but that opportunity
must be afforded them of seeing one another more privately.
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When Kefa had said this, the crowds dispersed; and when
we also were intending to go to our lodging, the master of the
men should stay in a hostelry, when I have almost my whole
house empty, and very many beds spread, and all necessary
things provided
householder prostrated herself before him with her children,