So having, by the bounty of Hypatia and her pupils, saved a small suns, I went out bought me a negress, and hired six rooms in the block we have just left, where I let lodgings to young students of the Divine Philosophy.' 'Have you any lodgers now ?' 'Ahem! Certain rooms are occupied by a lady of rank.

The philosopher will, above all things, abstain from babbling.

To bridle the tongue, is to--But there is a closet at your service; and for the hall of reception, which you have just left--are you not a kindred and fraternal spark?
We can combine our meals, as our souls are already united.' Philammon thanked him heartily for the offer, though he shrank from accepting it; and in ten minutes more found himself at the door of the very house which he had been watching the night before.

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.
Philammon gazed curiously at these symbols of a science unknown to him, and wondered whether the day would ever come when he too would understand their mysteries; but his eyes fell again as he saw the youths staring at his ragged sheepskin and matted locks with undisguised contempt.