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'Why not? Don't argue. These scoundrels will make me one, whether I like or not; so forth I go. There will be few leavetakings. This brute of a dog is the only friend I have on earth; and I love her, because she has the true old, dogged, spiteful, cunning, obstinate Maccabee spirit in her of which if we had a spark left in us just now, there would be no little Exodus; eh, Bran, my beauty?
"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy," the Maccabee said, half to himself. The boy heard him, but his patient's words merged with the dream that held him entranced. The Maccabee went on. "So said the Psalmist to himself," he said.
He had no definite memory of what followed, because of the rush of blood in his veins, the whirl of pleasurable sensation in his brain and the weight of a sweet frightened figure pressed to him. The Ephesian went, leaving an impression of a most vindictive threat in the glittering smile and the motion of his shapely hand clenched at the victorious Maccabee. The girl drew away hastily.
"What do you here, away from Ephesus, and worse, attempting to run my lines?" he demanded finally. The Maccabee signed toward the walls. "My wife is there," he said briefly. The Roman made an exclamation which showed the sudden change to enlightenment. "Solicitous after these many years?" he demanded. "She has two hundred talents," the Maccabee replied. Titus smiled and shook his head.
She hesitated, regretting that her defense of Momus had led her to hint her mission and touch upon her husband's ambition. "The welfare of hosts!" she replied finally. "Heavens! What a menace I was!" the Maccabee smiled. She colored quickly and he resented the veil that was shutting away so much that was fine and fleeting by way of expression under its folds.
There was a quick savage bark that heightened at the end in an excited yelp of welcome. The shepherd, a dim figure at the head of the flock, turned in time to see his dog leaping upon the Maccabee. "Down, Urge," the shepherd cried. "Joseph, in the name of God," the Maccabee cried, "where is Laodice?"
I believe that, should the time come when the country needs fighting men, the son of the despised immigrant Jew will resurrect on American soil, the first that bade him welcome, the old Maccabee type, and set an example for all the rest of us to follow.
There has been nothing sinful between us!" The old Christian's face grew immeasurably sad. "There is but one thing for you to do," he said. She wrenched herself away from the Maccabee, who had been angrily protesting against her carrying his case to another for decision, and confronted Nathan. "But he rejected me!" she cried with earnestness.
The Maccabee, shaken with the culmination of Rome's resolution and afraid in spite of himself, whirled angrily upon that voice speaking doom at his side. There in the old ragged tunic bound about him with rope, stood the old man he had rescued and had sheltered persistently for many days. The old man faced the young man's rage with supernatural composure and strength.
In the silence between the muffled beat of hooves the Maccabee heard at his ears the quick lively throb of a busy pump. With it went the firm rush of a subdued stream. He was hearing his own heart-beat, his own life flowing through his veins. Since nature in him had hurried him out of the synagogue after its own desire, he seemed to have become primitive, conscious of the human creature in him.
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