Or is the reverse the truth?
I will indemnify the learned men for their useless journey by disputing this question with them and their associates in the Museum.

The rapid movement to which the philologer was prompted on my account will prolong his existence; he bristles with learning at the tip of every hair, and he sits still more than is good for him.
"We shall arrive in modest disguise and will sleep at Lochias; you know that I have rested more than once on the bare earth, and, if need be, can sleep as well on a mat as on a couch.

My pillow follows at my heels--my big dog, which you know; and some little room, where I can meditate undisturbed on my designs for next year, can no doubt be found.
"I entreat you to keep my secret strictly.

To none--man nor woman--and I beseech you as urgently as friend or Caesar ever besought a favor--let the least suspicion of my arrival be known.

Nor must the smallest preparation betray whom it is you receive.