The man persists, and appeals to certain "wonderful works" he performs in order to convince the young man, that he is acquainted with the sciences aforesaid, and that he is also six feet high; of a dark complexion; and talks like an Emperor! The young man replies.

"Friend, you are either an enthusiast, a mad man, or something worse.

As to your ' signs and wonders,' I have been warned in my father's letter to pay no regard to any such things in this case.

Besides, you ought to be sensible, that your identity with the person I am taught by my father's letter to expect, can be only determined by comparing you with the description of him given therein.

Whether your 'wonderful works' are real miracles or not, I neither know, nor care.