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The coin was offered him, but he blandly put aside the hand of the giver, and keeping his place on the pavement, seemed inclined to dispute Hypatia's farther passage. 'What do you want? Send the wretch and his frightful dog away, gentlemen! said the poor philosopher in some trepidation. 'I know that dog, said one of them; 'it is Aben-Ezra's. Where did you find it before it was lost, you rascal.
And hurriedly, as if ashamed of his own confession, and yet compelled, in spite of himself, to unbosom it, he told Synesius all, from his first meeting with Victoria to his escape from her at Berenice. The good bishop, to Aben-Ezra's surprise, seemed to treat the whole matter as infinitely amusing.
That lesson from the book of Proverbs, which Augustine's deacon was reading in Latin the blood of the man who wrote these words was flowing in Aben-Ezra's veins.... Was it a mistake, an hypocrisy? or were they indeed worshipping, as they fancied, the Ancient One who spoke face to face with his forefathers, the Archetype of man, the friend of Abraham and of Israel?
The voice was low, but yet so clear and calm, that every syllable rang through Aben-Ezra's tingling ears.... A shout a shriek the confused murmur of many voices.... He looked up, in spite of himself-a horseman had sprung to the ground, and clasped Victoria in his arms.
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