Hypatia recoiled with a shriek of surprise.
'Ah! you are astonished.

At what, I pray ?' 'To see you, sir, thus!' 'Why, then?
You have been preaching to us all a long time the glory of abstraction from the allurements of sense.

It augurs ill, surely, for your estimate either of your pupils or of your own eloquence, if you are so struck with consternation because one of them has actually at last obeyed you.' 'What is the meaning of this masquerade, most excellent sir ?' asked Hypatia and a dozen voices beside.
'Ask Cyril.

I am on my way to Italy, in the character of the New Diogenes, to look, like him, for a man.

When I have found one, I shall feel great pleasure in returning to acquaint you with the amazing news.
Farewell! I wished to look once more at a certain countenance, though I have turned, as you see, Cynic; and intend henceforth to attend no teacher but my dog, who will luckily charge no fees for instruction; if she did, I must go untaught, for my ancestral wealth made itself wings yesterday morning.