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Pearl-Maiden

CHAPTER XX
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You need not mention that you paid nothing." "Oh! no, I won't mention it.

Good morning, Mr.Cabbage-grower, good morning." Then he stood still watching as Caleb vanished quickly among the great boles of the olive trees.

"What can stir a Jew so much," he reflected to himself, "as to make him give something for nothing, and especially to a Roman?
Perhaps he is Pearl-Maiden's brother.

No, that can't be from his eyes--her lover more likely.

Well, it is no affair of mine, and although he never grew them, the vegetables are good and fresh." That evening when Caleb, still disguised as a peasant, was travelling through the growing twilight across the hills that bordered the road to Tyre, he heard a mighty wailing rise from Jerusalem and knew that it was the death-cry of his people.


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