For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make . ' ` He means , ' said Puck , grinning , ` that if you try to make yourself a decent chap when you 're young , you 'll make rather decent friends when you grow up . If you 're a beast , you 'll have beastly friends . Listen to the Pious Parnesius on Friendship ! ' ' I am not pious , ' Parnesius answered , ` but I know what goodness means ; and my friend , though he was without hope , was ten thousand times better than I. Stop laughing , Faun ! ' ` Oh , Youth Eternal and All-believing , ' cried Puck , as he rocked on the branch above . ` Tell them about your Pertinax . ' ` He was that friend the Gods sent me -- the boy who spoke to me when I first came . Little older than myself , commanding the Augusta Victoria Cohort on the tower next to us and the Numidians . In virtue he was far my superior . ' ` Then why was he on the Wall ? ' Una asked , quickly . ` They 'd all done something bad . You said so yourself . ' ` He was the nephew , his Father had died , of a great rich man in Gaul who was not always kind to his Mother . When Pertinax grew up , he discovered this , and so his uncle shipped him off , by trickery and force , to the Wall . We came to know each other at a ceremony in our Temple -- in the dark . It was the Bull-Killing , ' Parnesius explained to Puck . ' I see , said Puck , and turned to the children . ` That 's something you would n't quite understand .
XXXXX means he met Pertinax in church . '
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