Her father?
A man of triangles and conic sections.

How paltry they all looked by the side of the unfathomable Jew!--Spinners of charming cobwebs.....

But would the flies condescend to be caught in them?
Builders of pretty houses.....

If people would but enter and live in them! Preachers of superfine morality....

which their admiring pupils never dreamt of practising.