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Hypatia

CHAPTER VIII: THE EAST WIND
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Farewell, Queen of Philosophy! When I find the man, you shall hear of it.

Mother, I am coming with you for a friendly word before we part, though' he went on, laughing, as the two walked away together, 'it was a scurvy trick of you to balk one of The Nation of the exquisite pleasure of seeing those heathen dogs scrambling in the gutter for his bounty.' Hypatia went on to the Museum, utterly bewildered by this strange meeting, and its still stranger end.

She took care, nevertheless, to betray no sign of her deep interest till she found herself alone in her little waiting-room adjoining the lecture-hall; and there, throwing herself into a chair, she sat and thought, till she found, to her surprise and anger, the tears trickling down her cheeks.

Not that her bosom held one spark of affection for Raphael.

If there had ever been any danger of that the wily Jew had himself taken care to ward it off, by the sneering and frivolous tone with which he quashed every approach to deep feeling, either in himself or in others.


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