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Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though He stands and waits with patience, with exactness grinds He all And so found, in due time, the philosophers as well as the ecclesiastics of Alexandria. Twenty years after Hypatia's death, philosophy was flickering down to the very socket. Hypatia's murder was its death-blow.
But how long hast thou learned to call thyself Hypatia's scholar, or to call it a degradation to visit the most sinful, if thou mightest thereby bring back a lost lamb to the Good Shepherd? Nevertheless, thou art too young for such employment and she meant to tempt thee doubtless. 'I do not think it. She seemed struck by my talking Athenian Greek, and having come from Athens.
Levantine dice are rattled where Hypatia's voice was heard. Bills of exchange are trafficked in where Cleopatra wandered under the palm aisles of her rose gardens. Drummers roll their caserne-calls where Drusus fell and Sulla laid down dominion.
'The little porter philosopher, who hangs about Hypatia's lecture-room? 'The same, the same. He will give me your letter, and I swear to you, I will cross the mountains of Kaf, to deliver you! I will pay you all back. By Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob I swear! May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not account to you for the last penny!
'From Hypatia's, you say? Why, he only returned to the city this morning. 'I saw his four-in-hand standing at her door, as I came down the Museum Street hither, half an hour ago. 'And twenty carriages besides, I don't doubt? 'The street was blocked up with them. There! Look round the corner now. Chariots, litters, slaves, and fops.
If Hypatia's colour had faded a moment before under the withering glance of the old Jewess, it rose again swiftly enough, as she read line after line of this strange epistle; till at last, crushing it together in her hand, she rose and hurried into the adjoining library, where Theon sat over his books. 'Father, do you know anything of this?
And she laughed and blushed so sweetly, that the old man forgot his fears, as she intended that he should, and kissed her and went his way for the time being, to command all manner of hospitalities to the soldiers, whom he prudently determined to keep in his house as long as he could make them stay there; in pursuance of which wise purpose he contrived not to see a great deal of pleasant flirtation between his valiant defenders and Hypatia's maids, who, by no means so prudish as their mistress, welcomed as a rare boon from heaven an afternoon's chat with twenty tall men of war.
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 not drawn, as Hypatia's were, exclusively from some sublime or portentous phenomenon, but from some dog, or kettle, or fishwife, with a homely insight worthy of old Socrates himself.
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