 of the service
in general, and to my own prejudice and disappointment in particular.' I will
not repeat you my whole speech; but, to be as concise as possible, when we
parted that evening the minister squeezed me heartily by the hand, and with
great commendation of my honesty and assurances of his favour, he appointed me
the next evening to come to him alone; when, finding me, after a little more
scrutiny, ready for his purpose, he proposed to me to accuse Timasius of high
treason, promising me the highest rewards if I would undertake it. The
consequence to him, I suppose you know, was ruin; but what was it to me? Why,
truly, when I waited on Eutropius for the fulfilling his promises, he received
me with great distance and coldness; and, on my dropping some hints of my
expectations from him, he affected not to understand me; saying he thought
impunity was the utmost I could hope for on discovering my accomplice, whose
offence was only greater than mine, as he was in a higher station; and telling
me he had great difficulty to obtain a pardon for me from the emperor, which, he
said, he had struggled very hardly for, as he had worked the discovery out of
me. He turned away, and addressed himself to another person.«
    »I was so incensed at this treatment, that I resolved revenge, and should
certainly have pursued it, had he not cautiously prevented me by taking
effectual means to despatch me soon after out of the world.«
    »You will, I believe, now think I had a second good chance for the
bottomless pit, and indeed Minos seemed inclined to tumble me in, till he was
informed of the revenge taken on me by Rodoric, and my seven years' subsequent
servitude to the widow; which he thought sufficient to make atonement for all
the crimes a single life could admit of, and so sent me back to try my fortune a
third time.«
 

                                 Chapter Eleven

 In which Julian relates his adventures in the character of an avaricious Jew.

The next character in which I was destined to appear in the flesh was that of an
avaricious Jew. I was born in Alexandria in Egypt. My name was Balthazar.
Nothing very remarkable happened to me till the year of the memorable tumult in
which the Jews of that city are reported in history to have massacred more
Christians than at that time dwelt in it. Indeed, the truth is, they did maul
the dogs pretty handsomely; but I myself was not present, for as all our people
were
