Works - v. 6 Author:Charles Kingsley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XIX. JEWS AGAINST CHRISTIANS. The little porter, after having carried Arsenius's message to Miriam, had run back in search of Phil- ammon and his f... more »oster-father; and not finding them, had spent the evening in such frantic rushings to and fro, as produced great doubts of his sanity among the people of the quarter. At last hunger sent him home to supper; at which meal he tried to find vent for his excited feelings in his favourite employment of beating his wife. Whereon Miriam's two Syrian slave-girls, attracted by her screams, came to the rescue, threw a pail of water over him, and turned him out of doors. He, nothing discomfited, likened himself smilingly to Socrates conquered by Xantippe ; and, philosophically yielding to circumstances, hopped about like a tame magpie for a couple of hours at the entrance of the alley, pouring forth a stream of light raillery on the passers-by, which several times endangered his personal safety; till at last Philammon, hurrying breathlessly home, rushed into his arms. " Hush ! Hither with me ! Your star still prospers. She calls for you." "Who?" " Miriam herself. Be secret as the grave. You she will see and speak with. The message of Arsenius she rejected in language which it is unnecessary for philosophic lips to repeat . Come; but give her good words—as are fit to an enchantress who can stay the stars in their courses, and command the spirits of the third heaven." Philammon hurried home with Eudaemon. Little cared he now for Hypatia's warning against Miriam. . . . Was he not in search of a sister 1 " So, you wretch, you are back again!" cried one of the girls, as they knocked at the outer door of Miriam's apartments. " What do you mean by bringing young men here at this time of night?" "Better go down, and beg par...« less