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'Fear not, honest Isaac, I cried; 'I am not yet so weary of the faith of my ancestors. That cannot be altogether despicable, which has had power to bind in one mass the whole Roman people for so many ages I shall be no easy convert to either you or Probus. Farewell, to meet in Tadmor.
He moreover, either established or built many important towns or fortresses, among others being Tadmor in the wilderness, afterward celebrated in history as Palmyra. Countless workmen and inestimable wealth were involved in the building enterprises of the great king, which included at the last, to his shame, rival temples to Moloch, and the other false gods of his heathen wives.
"If Amelius had not been brought up at Tadmor," he said, "I should take my hat, and wish you good morning. As things are, a word more may be a word in season. Your lessons here seem to have agreed with you, Miss. You're a different sort of girl to what you were when I last saw you." She surprised him by receiving that remark in silence. The colour left her face. She sighed bitterly.
Farnaby to her husband. "Fancy such a man as that, being married to such an idiot as Regina!" "There's always a chance for him," returned Mr. Farnaby, savagely, "as long as he's not married to such a woman as You!" In the mean time, Amelius had claimed national kindred with his audience as an Englishman, and had rapidly sketched his life at Tadmor, in its most noteworthy points.
The secretary invited Amelius, in highly complimentary terms, to lecture, in the hall of the Institution, on Christian Socialism as taught and practised in the Community at Tadmor. Minor details were reserved to be discussed with the secretary, when the lecturer had consented to the arrangement proposed to him. Having finished the letter, Amelius looked at his friend.
More trees behind the houses and, on the other side of the hill, cornfields, nothing but cornfields rolling away and away in great yellow plains, till they reached the golden sky and the setting sun, and were seen no more. That was our first view of Tadmor, when the stage-coach dropped us at the town." Mr. Hethcote still held out.
And yet so strong a force was Rome in the world that even this free-tempered desert city had gradually become Romanized in manners as in name, so that Tadmor had become first Adrianapolis and then Palmyra. And this influence had touched even these children in the portico.
The Phoenician trade with Babylonia and Assyria was carried on probably by caravans, which traversed the Syrian desert by way of Tadmor or Palmyra, and struck the Euphrates about Circesium. Here the route divided, passing to Babylon southwards along the course of the great river, and to Nineveh eastwards by way of the Khabour and the Sinjar mountain-range.
Her letter began abruptly, in these terms: "Do you remember what I said to you when we parted at Tadmor? I said, 'Be comforted, Amelius, the end is not yet. And I said again, 'You will come back to me. "I remind you of this, my friend directing to your lawyers, whose names I remember when their letter to you was publicly read in the Common Room.
Is that the heart I can feel beating under my hand? Is that the Christianity you learnt at Tadmor? Pooh, pooh, you foolish boy! Go back to Regina; and tell her you have tried to frighten me, and you find it won't do." The next day was Saturday. The advertisement of the lecture appeared in the newspapers.
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