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'You did, answered he; and fell into a long and silent meditation. THESE four months had been busy and eventful enough to Hypatia and to Philammon; yet the events and the business were of so gradual and uniform a tenor, that it is as well to pass quickly over them, and show what had happened principally by its effects.
'The little fellow forgets, said Arsenius, with a smile, 'to how much he has confessed already, and how easy it were now to trace him to the old hag's lair.... Philammon, my son.... I have many tears to weep over thee but they must wait a while, I have thee safe now, and the old man clutched his arm. 'Thou wilt not leave thy poor old father? Thou wilt not desert me for the heathen woman?
Philammon, furious at the notion of persecution, maddened by the cries around him, found himself bursting fiercely through the crowd, till he reached the front ranks, where tall gates of open ironwork barred all farther progress, but left a full view of the tragedy which was enacting within, where the poor innocent wretch, suspended from a gibbet, writhed and shrieked at every stroke of the hide whips of his tormentors.
Thirdly, sir, as a philosopher; for as the false coin is odious to the true, so is the irrational and animal asceticism of the monk, to the logical and methodic self-restraint of one who, like your humblest of philosophers, aspires to a life according to the pure reason. 'And pray, asked Philammon, half laughing, 'who has been your tutor in philosophy?
'But how knewest thou them to be women, when thou hast never yet, unless thou liest which I believe not of thee seen the face of a daughter of Eve? 'Perhaps perhaps, said Philammon, as if suddenly relieved by a new suggestion 'perhaps they were only devils. They must have been, I think, for they were so very beautiful. 'Ah! how knowest thou that devils are beautiful?
'And are these your friends? 'Heaven forbid! I have nothing in common with such animals but flesh and blood, and a seat in the lecture-room! 'Of the heathen woman? Philammon, after the fashion of young men in fear, rushed desperately into the subject himself, just because he dreaded Arsenius's entering on it quietly. 'Yes, of the heathen woman.
Judge for yourself! Alas! poor Philammon! 'And after all, thought he, 'is it not true, as well as pleasant? 'Sing to the poor boy, girls! sing to him! and teach him for the first time in his little ignorant life, the old road to inspiration!
Some people have a great deal too much notice taken of them, in my opinion. Yes; you may go. If your head is not turned already, you may go and get it turned to-morrow. We shall see whether he who exalts himself is not abased, before all is over! And he was striding away, when Philammon, at the risk of an explosion, stopped him. 'His holiness commanded me to see him, sir, before
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.
Why should not he, too, have his share of it? Bringing with it such thoughts as these, the time ran on till noon, and the mid-day meal, and the afternoon's work, to which Philammon looked forward joyfully, as a refuge from his own thoughts.
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