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"Do not run stand still," said Nehushta to Miriam, "and show no sign of fear." So Miriam halted and began to gather a few autumn flowers that still bloomed among the bushes, till the shadow of the officer fell upon her that shadow in which she was destined to walk all her life-days.
Woe is me that I rule the world and trample the whole earth beneath my feet, and cannot have the one thing that all the earth holds which is good! Woe is me, Nehushta, that you have cruelly stolen my peace from me, and I find it not nor shall find it for evermore!" The strong dark man stood wringing his hands together; his face was pale as the dead, his black eyes were blazing with a mad fire.
"Yes, Nehushta is right, you have a noble heart"; and she looked at him in such a fashion that it flashed across his mind that were he to proffer that request of his again, it might not be refused. But Marcus would not do it.
Then, speaking aloud, he put up a prayer to God for guidance for without prayer these people would not enter upon anything, however simple and came back to Nehushta, who stood by the oxen.
"I shall be glad of it," answered Nehushta drily. "Also I should call them the highest of the brethren, since marriage is a law of God, which God the Father has instituted, and God the Son has blessed." "I may not wrangle, I may not wrangle," replied Ithiel, declining the encounter; "but certainly, that is a lovely babe. Look.
This time Nehushta looked at the queen, and wondered how she, who could not be more than two or three and twenty years old, although now married to her third husband, could speak of having known Zoroaster as a boy, seeing that he was past thirty years of age. She turned the question upon the queen. "You must have seen Zoroaster very often before he left Shushan," she said. "You know him so well."
"I care not but I will keep the knife," she added, laying the keen blade upon the table, amid the little instruments of her toilet. But Nehushta ran fast through the corridors and halls till she came to her slaves who had waited for her at the entrance to the queen's apartment. Then she seemed to recollect herself, and slackened her pace, and went on to her own chambers.
They heard, and seizing the tapers, ran forward. "It is she!" they cried, "our queen and none other, and with her Nehushta the Libyan! Welcome, welcome, a thousand times, dear lady!" Miriam greeted them one and all, and before these greetings were finished they brought her food to eat, rough but wholesome, also good wine and sweet water. Then while she ate she heard all their story.
Some were for abandoning him; some for sending him back to the Romans; but Nehushta showed that it would be wise to keep him as a hostage, so that if they were attacked they might produce him and in return for their care, perhaps buy their lives.
He paused, but the President, without taking the slightest notice of his insults or sarcasms, repeated merely: "We have spoken," and as with one voice, like some great echo, the whole hundred of them cried, "We have spoken!" "Do you hear them, master?" said Nehushta in the silence that followed. "Well, I know them.
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