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Updated: May 5, 2025
Ten thousand horsemen, sons of the desert, will ask to-day, 'Have you heard of Mira? And to the answer, 'She is well, they will say, 'God is good! blessed be God!" "Mira Sirius names of stars, are they not, O sheik?" asked Ben-Hur, going to each of the four, and to the sire, offering his hand. "And why not?" replied Ilderim. "Wert thou ever abroad on the desert at night?" "No."
And when, finally, Ben-Hur saw the tribune mount his platform and don his armor, and get his helmet and shield out, the meaning of the preparations might not be any longer doubted, and he made ready for the last ignominy of his service. To every bench, as a fixture, there was a chain with heavy anklets.
For a while the water foamed and eddied violently about Ben-Hur, taxing all his strength to hold to the support and at the same time keep the Roman's head above the surface. The galley had passed, leaving the two barely outside the stroke of its oars. Right through the floating men, over heads helmeted as well as heads bare, she drove, in her wake nothing but the sea sparkling with fire.
If you be, indeed, the Ben-Hur of whom my father has spoken, and whom it was my pleasure to have known as well, you will be happy, I am sure, to show us some near path to living water, that with its sparkle we may grace a morning's meal in the Desert." Ben-Hur, nothing loath, hastened to answer. "Fair Egyptian, I give you sympathy.
This was the emergency for which Ben-Hur had been for years preparing. The man to whose security he had devoted himself, and upon whose life he had been building so largely, was in personal peril; yet he stood still. Such contradictions are there in human nature!
"Shall I not have back the equivalent of his robbery?" said Ben-Hur, partly to himself. "Another opportunity may not come. And if I could break him in fortune as well as in pride! Our father Jacob could take no offence." A look of determined will knit his handsome face, giving emphasis to his further speech. "Yes, it shall be. Hark, Malluch! Stop not in thy offer of sestertii.
Then Ben-Hur, bowing to the old men, began again: "I fear to answer the question asked me about the Nazarene without first telling you some of the things I have seen him do; and to that I am the more inclined, my friends, because to-morrow he will come to the city, and go up into the Temple, which he calls his father's house, where, it is further said, he will proclaim himself.
Iras herself under the raised curtain looking down at him, her great swimming eyes bright with astonishment and inquiry! "The blessing of the true God upon you!" said Balthasar, in his tremulous voice. "And to thee and thine be the peace of the Lord," Ben-Hur replied.
There is the sun of India in thine eyes; in the corners of thy mouth, Egypt hath set her love-signs. Perpol! Turn not to that slave, fair mistress, before proving merciful to this one. Tell me at least that I am pardoned." At this point she broke in upon him. "Wilt thou come here?" she asked, smiling, and with gracious bend of the head to Ben-Hur.
The shrieks of the thieves upon the reeling crosses were terrible to hear. Though giddy with the movements of the ground, Ben-Hur had time to look at Balthasar, and beheld him prostrate and still. He ran to him and called there was no reply. The good man was dead!
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