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I detest the whole breed of lawyers, and never meet one without turning him into ridicule; effeminate pettifoggers, who shudder at the very sight of roast venison, when they think of the dangers by which it has been procured. But it is a cowardly age, my friend a cowardly age. Let us forget it, and ourselves. 'And even philosophy and Hypatia? said Raphael archly. 'I have done with philosophy.
That at least promised a possibility of forgiveness, of amendment, of virtue, of reward ay, of everlasting bliss and glory; and even if she missed of that, better for her the cell in the desert than a life of self-contented impurity! If that latter were her destiny, as Hypatia said, she should at least die fighting against it, defying it, cursing it! Better virtue with hell, than sin with heaven!
A crowd of citizens with causes, appeals, and petitions, were passing in and out from the patriarch's audience-room. Peter and the archdeacon were waiting in the shade close by for the gathering of the parabolani, and talking over the morning's work in an earnest whisper, in which the names of Hypatia and Orestes were now and then audible.
There is a real though a juvenile poetry in Westward Ho! and though that narrative, historically considered, is very much of a lie, it is a good, thundering honest lie. There are also genuinely eloquent things in Hypatia, and a certain electric atmosphere of sectarian excitement that Kingsley kept himself in, and did know how to convey. He said he wrote the book in his heart's blood.
'And what is that? asked Hypatia. 'A white elephant. 'A white elephant? 'Yes, he answered, mistaking or ignoring the tone of her answer. 'A real, live, white elephant; a thing which has not been seen in Alexandria for a hundred years!
'Revenge for the blessed martyr Hieracas! 'Revenge for the wrongs of the Church! 'Down with the friend of Heathens, Jews, and Barbarians! 'Down with the favourite of Hypatia! 'Tyrant! 'Butcher! And the last epithet so smote the delicate fancy of the crowd, that a general cry arose of 'Kill the butcher! and one furious monk attempted to clamber into the chariot.
Or, perhaps, if you are bashful, the old Jewess might try him for you? These last words were spoken with so marked a significance, that Hypatia, in spite of her disgust, found herself asking the hag what she meant.
Rather more than a century had passed since the subjugation of Zenobia and her Empire by pagan Rome, when Hypatia, the philosopher of Alexandria, attracted the attention of the then civilized world by her marvelous talents and varied accomplishments.
'The farther together the better for the boy's sake, grumbled Peter, loud enough for Philammon perhaps for the old priest to overhear him. So Philammon went out with them, and as he went questioned his companions meekly enough as to who Raphael was. 'A friend of Hypatia! that name, too, haunted him; and he began, as stealthily and indirectly as he could, to obtain information about her.
Upon some new joke of Maurice's, the lawyer gave his amorous programme in the following terms: "Understand me, a woman must be as intelligent as Hypatia, and have the sensibility of Heloise; the smile of a Joconde, and the limbs of an Antiope; and, even then, if she had not the throat of a Venus de Medicis, I should not love her."
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