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'You have? Then take them with you, and escape, and remember Lot's wife. Eudaimon, come with me. You must lead me to your house, to the lodging of Miriam the Jewess. Do not deny! I know that she is there. For the sake of her who is gone I will hold you harmless, ay, reward you richly, if you prove faithful. Rise!
There are times when the very intensity of our misery is a boon, and kindly stuns us till we are unable to torture ourselves by thought. And so it was with Philammon then. He sat there, he knew not how long. 'She is with the gods, said Eudaimon at last. 'She is with the God of gods, answered Philammon: and they both were silent again. Suddenly a commanding voice aroused them.
Philammon hurried home with Eudaimon. Little cared he now for Hypatia's warning against Miriam.... Was he not in search of a sister? 'So' you wretch, you are back again! cried one of the girls, as they knocked at the outer door of Miriam's apartments. 'What do you mean by bringing young men here at this time of night? 'Better go down, and beg pardon of that poor wife of yours.
And without waiting for an answer, Raphael bowed himself out of the august presence, and sailing for Berenice that very day, with Eudaimon and his negro wife, went to his own place; there to labour and to succour, a sad and stern, and yet a loving and a much-loved man, for many a year to come.
Escape from her! I will hide your jewels! 'Ay, hide them, as mother earth does all things, in that all-embracing bosom. You will have doubled them before we meet again, no doubt. Farewell, mother! 'But not for ever, Raphael! not for ever! Promise me, in the name of the four archangels, that if you are in trouble or danger, you will write to me, at the house of Eudaimon.
Look here! here they are, the wonder-working atomies! Eat no food this day, except one of these every three hours, and come to me to-night at the house of your porter, Eudaimon, bringing with you the black agate; and then why then, what you have the heart to see, you shall see! Hypatia took the wafers, hesitating 'But what are they? 'And you profess to explain Homer?
Eudaimon, who knew Raphael's face well, rose and led the way trembling; and Philammon was left alone. They never met again. But Philammon knew that he had been in the presence of a stronger man than himself, and of one who hated even more bitterly than he himself that deed at which the very sun, it seemed, ought to have veiled his face.
Eudaimon, it is the church of the devils of hell! And gathering himself up, he sat upon the steps and buried his head within his hands. He would have given life itself for the power of weeping: but his eyes and brain were hot and dry as the desert. Eudaimon looked at him a while. The shock had sobered the poor fop for once. 'I did what I could to die with her! said he.
Eudaimon resolutely kept the secret and imprecated a whole Tartarus of unnecessary curses on his wife if she allowed her female garrulity though the poor creature seemed never to open her lips from morning till night to betray so great a mystery. Who was the unknown friend? There was but one person who could have done it.... And yet he dared not the thought was too delightful think it was she.
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