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Hypatia

CHAPTER VII: THOSE BY WHOM OFFENCES COME
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There is money for you.' 'What is this for ?' asked Philammon, fingering curiously the first coins which he ever had handled in his life.
'To pay for your entrance.

To the philosopher none enters without money.
Not so to the Church of God, open all day long to the beggar and the slave.

If you convert her, well.

And if not'....

And he added to himself between his teeth, 'And if not, well also--perhaps better.' 'Ay!' said Peter bitterly, as he ushered Philammon out.


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