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She was calm again. "Then, if thy message is delivered, go!" He backed out and descended the stairway. When she was sure he was gone she flung herself, in a paroxysm of wild grief and despair, face down on her cushions. At that moment a cold hand caught her arm. She looked up and saw Rachel. All the blue had gone from the Israelite's eyes, leaving them black with dreadful conviction.
A certain portion of every Israelite's possessions is to be given to furnish the table of the Lord, and, as if to assure you that He considers you His own, and will perform the part of husband and father for you at that table, and in his own house he provides for you ever a place.
"The Lord God bless him," the girl murmured earnestly. "Where dost thou say we go?" she asked after a little silence. "To the quarries of Masaarah, opposite Memphis." The color in the young Israelite's face receded a little. "To the quarries," she repeated in a half-whisper. "Fearest thou?" "Nay, not for myself, at all, but we may not have another Atsu over us there. I fear for thee, Deborah."
But we know that that is but a partial remedy, that we cannot succeed in doing it. There are presences that will not be put by. There are memories that will start up before us, whether we are willing or not. Like the leprosy in the Israelite's house, the foul spot works its way out through all the plaster and the paint; and the house is foul because it is there.
Even grown-up people will sometimes buy another's dearest secret for a light asseveration. And when she had thus ensured the Israelite's silence, she confided to him that she was charged by Orion to send out a messenger to meet Amru, that he and Paula might be reprieved in time.
Two hands more unlike had rarely met over a chess-board; one suggested a strong, dark plough-ox, the other a light, slender-limbed palfrey. The Israelite's figure looked small in contrast with the smith's gigantic frame. How coarse-grained, how heavy with thought the German's big, fair head appeared, how delicately moulded and intellectual the Portuguese Jew's.
I am betrothed to the heir of the crown of Egypt " Deborah flung up her hand, drawing away in her amazement. "Thou! A coming queen over the proud land of Mizraim a guest in the retreat of enslaved Israel!" Masanath bent her head. "Ye, in your want and distress, are not more poor or wretched than I." The old Israelite's brilliant eyes glittered in the dark. "Hold!" she exclaimed.
"Adonai! help us Adonai!" murmured the old man and he clung more closely to his nephew, who overtopped him by a head and who held him clasped in his right arm as if to protect him. The danger which threatened Apollodorus and his guests was indeed imminent, and it had been provoked solely by the indignation of the excited mob at seeing the wealthy Israelite's house unadorned for the feast.
And in Hall's Contemplations the following: "Mercy becomes well the heart of any man, but most of a Levite. He that had helped to offer so many sacrifices to God for the multitude of every Israelite's sins saw how proportionable it was that man should not hold one sin unpardonable.
He shook off the Israelite's hands and ran into the open. There, he ordered the black to give the treasure over to the Hebrew, and flinging himself upon his horse, galloped furiously toward Tanis. Of the remainder of the day Seti had little memory.
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