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O, Herod! Herod of Judea thy name is hereafter bright, for in thy bloody business thou wast thyself nowhere to be seen. In the vouts and abysses of thy unstained palace, thou hidst thyself from the eye of history, and perhaps humanely sat covering thine ears with thy hands to shut out the sound of the wail and woe around thee. But this Herod let me not call him by so humane a name.
Sir John turned on him, laughing still, seeming in very truth as if the thing amused him. "When, when?" he said. "Never, I swear!" and held a pinch of snuff in his fingers daintily, his eyes gleaming blue as sapphires through the new light in them. "Swear away!" cried Sir Christopher; "thou wast too drunk to remember. 'Twas the night thou hidst the package in the wall."
"I am so young," she said. "Life is so strong; the world seems full of flowers. Sure some of them are mine. My heart beats so it so beats. Forgive! forgive!" "Tis from to-day our life begins," he whispered, solemnly. "And God so deal with me, Heart, as I shall deal with you." "'Twas the night thou hidst the package in the wall"
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