At all events, the easiest way to cut the knot is to expatriate.

I shall beg my passage on board the first ship to Cyrene, and go and study life in Italy with Heraclian's expedition.

Quick--take the jewels, and breed fresh troubles for yourself with them.

I am going.
My liberators are battering the outer door already.' Miriam greedily tore out of the closet diamonds and pearls, rubies and emeralds, and concealed them among her ample robes--'Go! go! Escape from her! I will hide your jewels!' 'Ay, hide them, as mother earth does all things, in that all-embracing bosom.

You will have doubled them before we meet again, no doubt.
Farewell, mother!' 'But not for ever, Raphael! not for ever! Promise me, in the name of the four archangels, that if you are in trouble or danger, you will write to me, at the house of Eudaimon.' 'The little porter philosopher, who hangs about Hypatia's lecture-room ?' 'The same, the same.