: The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Miller Elizabeth Leyendecker Frank X Illustrator - Jerusalem History Siege 70 A.D. Fiction

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I A Prince's Bride 1

II On the Road to Jerusalem 31

VI Dawn in the Hills 124

X The Story of a Divine Tragedy 212

XX As the Foam upon Water 390

THE CITY OF DELIGHT

A PRINCE'S BRIDE

The chief merchant of Ascalon stood in the guest-chamber of his house.

Although it was a late winter day the old man was clad in the free white garments of a midsummer afternoon, for to the sorrow of Philistia the cold season of the year sixty-nine had been warm, wet and miasmic. An old woman entering presently glanced at the closed windows of the apartment when she noted the flushed face of the merchant but she made no movement to have them opened. More than the warmth of the day was engaging the attention of the grave old man, and the woman, by dress and manner of equal rank with him, stood aside until he could give her a moment.

His porter bowed at his side.

"The servants of Philip of Tyre are without," he said. "Shall they enter?"

"They have come for the furnishings," Costobarus answered. "Take thou all the household but Momus and Hiram, and dismantle the rooms for them. Begin in the library; then the sleeping-rooms; this chamber next; the kitchen last of all. Send Hiram to the stables to except three good camels from the herd for our use. Let Momus look to the baggage. Where is Keturah?"

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