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You, too, will be able to guess some day, without the teraph's help. But in the mean time you must enter Orestes's service. Why?-What are you hesitating about? Do you not know that you are high in his favour? He will make you secretary raise you to be chamberlain some day, if you know how to make good use of your fortune. Philammon stood in astonished silence; and at last 'Servant to that man?
And that is of this kind: whether it was right that his mother should be put to death by Orestes, because she had put to death Orestes's father? Now proof by testimony is the firmest sort of reasoning that can be used by an advocate in defence, and it is also the best adapted for the examination of any excuse which may be alleged.
'I? Why should I not see her? Am I not her pupil? 'She will not have pupils much longer, my child. If you wish to hear her wisdom and much good may it do you you must go for it henceforth somewhat nearer to Orestes's palace than the lecture-room is. Ah! you start. Have I found you an argument now? No ask no questions. I explain nothing to monks.
And she loves that monk. I saw it in her eyes there in the garden. So much the better for me, too. He will dangle willingly enough at Orestes's heels for the sake of being near her poor fool! We will make him secretary, or chamberlain. He has wit enough for it, they say, or for anything.
Now the notes to the Gaol-masters, about the gladiators. 'Here, your Excellency. 'To Hypatia. No. I will honour my bride elect with my own illustrious presence. As I live, here is a morning's work for a man with a racking headache! 'Your Excellency has the strength of seven. May you live for ever! And really, Orestes's power of getting through business, when he chose, was surprising enough.
But take these letters; to-morrow morning at the third hour go to Orestes's palace, and ask for his secretary, Ethan the Chaldee. Say boldly that you bring important news of state; and then follow your star: it is a fairer one than you fancy. Go! obey me, or you see no sister. Philammon felt himself trapped; but, after all, what might not this strange woman do for him?
'After all, I know how to toss my balls gently and for these forty years I have only lived to make young folks happy; so you need not be afraid of the poor soft-hearted old woman. Now you saved Orestes's life yesterday. 'How did you find out that? 'I? I know everything. I know what the swallows say when they pass each other on the wing, and what the fishes think of in the summer sea.
'Hist! what is that tramp upon the stairs? At this moment heavy footsteps were heard ascending the stairs.... All three stopped aghast: Philammon, because he thought the visitors were monks in search of him; Miriam, because she thought they were Orestes's guards in search of her; and Pelagia, from vague dread of anything and everything.... 'Have you an inner room? asked the Jewess. 'None.
Oh, beloved gods! where will end the tortures through which your martyr must witness for you to a fallen race? And, in spite of all her pride, and of Orestes's presence, her eyes filled with scalding tears.
And she was a fanatic.... And she was to be an empress.... And Orestes's voice was as melodious, and his manner as graceful as ever charmed the heart of woman. 'But Pelagia? she said, at last, recovering herself. 'Would that I had never seen the creature! But, after all, I really fancied that in doing what I have done I should gratify you. 'Me?
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