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Be sure, at least, that whatsoever it may be, you will not wipe it out by trying to make a proselyte of me! 'Be not too sure of that. I have found too great a treasure not to wish to share it with Theon's daughter. 'A treasure? said she, half scornfully. 'Yes, indeed. You recollect my last words, when we parted there below a few months ago? Hypatia was silent.
'Stop! Stay! You are going to destruction! Calmly she looked down upon him. 'Accomplice of witches! Would you make of Theon's daughter a traitor like yourself? He sprang up, stepped back, and stood stupefied with shame and despair.... She believed him guilty, then!.... It was the will of God!
It was she, then, whom he had seen!.... He was handed over by a black porter to a smart slave-girl, who guided him up, through cloisters and corridors, to the large library, where five or six young men were sitting, busily engaged, under Theon's superintendence, in copying manuscripts and drawing geometric diagrams.
Meanwhile, Theon's edition had been translated into Arabic, and thus preserved by the Mohammedans, and it was only at the beginning of the twelfth century that Athelard of Bath, who had been travelling in the East, came to study at Cordova, in Spain, and there found the Arabic MSS. of Euclid; these he translated into Latin, and this translation must have come into the hands of the patrons of the building craft at the very time when the Gothic style had its origin; it was the only Latin translation known in Europe, and was, some centuries later, the text-book of the first printed edition of Euclid.
Philammon winced somewhat at the hint; which seemed to have an ugly verisimilitude in it: but still, philosophy he must learn, and bread he must eat; so he submitted. But one evening, a few days after he had been admitted as Theon's pupil, he found, much to his astonishment, lying on the table in his garret, an undeniable glittering gold piece.
You are aware, doubtless, of the Plebiscitum against the Jews, which was carried into effect under the auspices of a certain holy tribune of the people? 'Infamous! 'And dangerous, my dear lady. Success is inspiriting.... and Theon's house is quite as easily sacked, as the Jews' quarter.... Beware.
My younger sons staying too long at the plays, and coming in too late to supper, Theon's sons waggishly and jocosely called them supper hinderers, night-suppers, and the like; and they in reply called their runners-to-supper.
For as Philammon fled she had recognised those well-known features; and the veil was lifted from her eyes, and the hope and the self-respect of Theon's daughter were gone for ever. Her righteous wrath was too deep for upbraidings.
But know before you go, that the celestial milk which fell from Here's bosom, bleaching the plant which it touched to everlasting whiteness, was not more taintless than the soul of Theon's daughter. He looked up in her face as he knelt before her. Unerring instinct told him that her words were true.
He sprang from the steps of the Caesareum, and turned up the street of the Museum. Alas! it was one roaring sea of heads! They were sacking Theon's house the house of so many memories! Perhaps the poor old man too had perished! Still his sister! He must save her and flee. And he turned up a side street and tried to make his way onward. Alas again! the whole of the dock-quarter was up and out.