I know why--I know why: they are afraid of Isidore's men here....

Perhaps they may have caught the holy man's trick of plain speaking--and ears are dainty in Alexandria.

And there are some in these parts, too, that have never forgiven him the part he took about those three villains, Marc, Zosimus, and Martinian, and a certain letter that came of it; or another letter either, which we know of, about taking alms for the church from the gains of robbers and usurers.

"Cyril never forgets." So he says to every one who does him a good turn....

And so he does to every one who he fancies has done him a bad one.