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The glance she shot at Laodice was full of cold anger that she had permitted herself to be surprised in company with Philadelphus. Philadelphus drew back a step, but made no further movement toward withdrawing. Laodice would have retreated, but the actress stood in her way. With a motion full of stately indignation, Salome turned to Amaryllis.
"Phila " he stopped on the brink of a puzzled inquiry, and for a space they regarded each other, each turning over his own perplexity for himself. "Ask me that again," he commanded her suddenly. "I did not understand." She hesitated and closed her lips. Her husband had stabbed this man in the back! Because of her? No! Philadelphus had refused to believe her.
For one hundred and twenty-five years Palestine was held by Egypt, during which time Ptolemy Philadelphus had the Septuagint version of the Old Testament made at Alexandria. Syria next secured control of Palestine. The walls of Jerusalem were destroyed, and the altar of Jehovah was polluted with swine's flesh.
She shrank from his touch, literally into the arms upon which Philadelphus rested his weight. She looked up into his eyes, and saw them soften with a smile, and moved no farther. Philadelphus took the coin. "Let Vespasian decide for me," he said. "For me Fortunatus," said Julian. Philadelphus filliped the coin and flung out a strong and fending hand against his fellow covering it.
"I mean to add her to my household, if you will," she explained. "Keep her or dismiss her at your pleasure." "It shall be for my pleasure. She has a charm that besets me. It will be entertainment to discover her history." "I see no mystery in her. It is plain enough that there is between her and this married Philadelphus some cause for her coming. His wife is much more engaging."
The museum is due to his son Ptolemy Philadelphus, who not only patronized learning in his own dominions, but likewise endeavoured to extend the boundaries of human knowledge in other quarters. Thus he sent an expedition under his admiral Timosthenes as far as Madagascar.
Withal her presence intimated tremendous primal charm and the mystery of undiscovered potentialities. And she was royal! No mere upstart of an impostor could have assumed that perfect hauteur, that patrician bearing. But the pretended Philadelphus was not impressed by this beauty. "How now, Salome?" he demanded. "What play is this?" The Ephesian actress motioned toward the shittim-wood casket.
How will you get my daughter to shelter when you have reached the city?" "Philadelphus hath instructed me that there will be a Greek at the Sun Gate daily, awaiting us. He will wear a purple turban embroidered with a golden star. He will conduct us to the house of Amaryllis the Seleucid, who is pledged to the Maccabee's cause. Philadelphus will be in her house." "Why hers?" Costobarus persisted.
"You have housed Discord under your roof, then," he said. "Laodice, the wife to this Philadelphus, will not be a happy woman; and I I shall not be a happy man. Let me return favor for your favor to me. I will take her away." She laughed, though it seemed that a hard note had entered her voice. "You will permit me, then, to surmise for myself why you came to Jerusalem.
"This," he said, "is Laodice, daughter of Costobarus." Laodice blazed at the insolent beauty who stared at her with curious eyes. "That!" she cried. "The daughter of Costobarus!" The fine brown eyes of the woman smoldered a little, but she continued to gaze without the least discomposure. "Who is this, sir?" she asked of Philadelphus.
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