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The departure might send us to the stake, or to Tamerlane, King of the Cynegion, or, infinitely worse, to the cloisters, if we were few; but what if we took in the youths of Byzantium as an entirety? The policy was clear. We founded an Academy the Academy of Epicurus and lodged it handsomely in a temple; and three times every week we have a session and lectures.
A guide will accompany you." To get to the uplands, so to speak, over which, north of Galata, the road to Hissar stretched, Corti was conducted past the Cynegion and through the districts of Eyoub to the Sweet Waters of Europe, which he crossed by a bridge below the site of the present neglected country palace of the Sultan.
Scorpions were unnested, and bats and owls made unhappy by daylight where daylight had never been before. Convents and monasteries were not exempt. The sea was dragged, and the great moat from the Golden Gate to the Cynegion raked for traces of a new-made grave. Nor less were the cemeteries overhauled, and tombs and sarcophagi opened, and Saints' Rests dug into and profaned.
About ten o'clock the day after the date of Count Corti's last despatch ten of the morning a woman appeared on the landing in front of Port St. Peter, and applied to a boatman for passage to the Cynegion. She was thickly veiled, and wore an every-day overcloak of brown stuff closely buttoned from her throat down. Her hands were gloved, and her feet coarsely shod.
Did he know that for asserting the Primitive Church as he taught it to me in the old convent, the Greeks and the Latins have alike adjudged me a heretic; that nothing saves me from the lions of the Cynegion, except my being a woman a woman forever offending by going when and where I wist with my face bare, and therefore harmless except to myself. If he knew this, would he send me his blessing?
The Himation or Maphorion, as the robe of the Virgin was called, brought the primitive edifice in the woods above the Cynegion a boundless increase of sanctity, while the discoverer received the freedom of the city, the reverence of the clergy, and the confidence of the Basileus. Nor did the prodigious memory stay there. The hill facing the city was of three terraces.
But that any one should hold it a crime to have rescued you O little friend, dear soul! See the live coal which does not cease burning!" "And Nilo?" "He wants nothing in the way of comforts." "I will go see the poor man the first thing when I get out." "His cell in the Cynegion is well furnished. The officer in charge has orders direct from the Emperor to see that he suffers no harm.
The changes wrought in his feeling were forwarded more than he was aware by the standing accorded him in the reception-room of the Princess Irene. After the affair at the Cynegion he had the delicacy not to push himself upon the attention of the noble lady. In preference he sent a servant every morning to inquire after her health.
"What a man!" said a woman, half afraid. "An infidel, no doubt," was the answer. "It is not a Christian wish, I know," the first added; "still I should like to see him face a lion in the Cynegion." "Ay, him they call Tamerlane, because he is shorn of two toes." The Prince, casting a glance of scarce concealed contempt over the throng, sighed, as he muttered, "If now I could meet the Emperor!"
The well-directed steel at length accomplished the work, and the pride of the Cynegion lay still in the bloody tangle then the benches found voice. Amidst the uproar Count Corti went to Nilo. "Who art thou?" he asked, in admiration. The King smiled, and signified his inability to hear or speak. Whereupon the Count led him to the Princess. "Take heart, fair saint," he said.
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