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When she turned to her guest, she saw something very like tears in Margaret's eyes. The child, who did not know the meaning of the word fear or shyness, was speaking to Margaret as if he had known her all his short life. "He has taken you into his elastic heart," Hadassah said. "Because, if you don't mind me saying so, I think we are rather like one another." "Oh, no!"
Why was she away? why should she shun him? she whose presence alone had rendered not only tolerable but delightful the kind of mild captivity in which he was retained, while the state of his wounds rendered the Greek unable, without assistance, to leave the dwelling of Hadassah. Lycidas had none of the scruples of Zarah regarding union with one of a different race and religion.
When the clergyman turned to the altar and read aloud the sixty-seventh Psalm Michael had requested it in preference to the hundred and twenty-eighth, which is perhaps the more usual Hadassah saw the bride and bridegroom smile happily to each other. They smiled, because Michael had often read the Psalm to Margaret and remarked on its similarity to the prayers of Akhnaton.
To be true to Michael she must not allow herself to grow despondent. Hadassah Ireton had gone through far greater trials and suffering than she was facing, and what had been her reward? Margaret visualized her married life, her expression of happiness as she greeted her, her pride in the small son who was toddling at her side. It was a condition of life well worth suffering and waiting for.
Amongst them all there was perhaps no one who was more commented upon and admired than herself. Sitting by herself, for one thing, provoked curiosity, while for another her claim to good looks had the high quality of distinguished individuality; in an assembly of well-dressed women of the world, Margaret, like Hadassah, could never be overlooked.
He gave me all his fierce young love at a time when it was very precious." "Ignorance was at the bottom of it all," Margaret said. She was alluding to the behaviour of the British residents in Cairo in respect to Hadassah's marriage. Hadassah understood. "I have learned to know and realize that," she said. "And, after all, one must pity ignorance.
No duty was neglected, no work left undone; nay, Zarah spun more busily than ever, for the support of the stranger was a drain on the scanty resources of Hadassah, and to work for him and pray for him was the sole indulgence which Zarah could allow herself without self-reproach.
Hadassah and her grand-daughter seated themselves in a half-reclining posture upon skins that were spread on the tiled floor; and while Zarah listened with glistening eyes, the Hebrew widow told her dream to the maiden. "Methought, in the visions of the night for I snatched a brief hour of repose after our return from the burial I beheld two women before me.
As the two women traversed the silent, narrow, deserted streets, they suddenly, at the angle formed by a transverse road, came upon a young man, whose rapid step indicated impatience or fear. He was moving with such eager speed that he almost struck against Hadassah, before he could arrest his quick movements. "Ha! Hadassah!" "Lycidas!
Zarah thought, though she did not say so, that the heart struggle would last as long as her earthly existence. "You will obey me, my daughter?" asked the widow; "you will shun the too attractive society of the stranger?" The maiden bowed her head in assent, and murmured, "Pray for me, mother; I am so weak." "My life shall be one prayer," said Hadassah.
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