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Pearl-Maiden

CHAPTER XXI
19/23

As you are great, be generous," and with a mocking gesture he bowed the knee to Titus.
"What boon do you seek of me, brother, who know that all I have is, or," he added slowly, "will be--yours ?" "One that is already granted by your precious words, Titus.

Of all you have, which is much, I seek only this Pearl-Maiden, who has taken my fancy.

The girl only, not her property in Tyre, wherever that may be, which you can keep for yourself." Vespasian looked up, but before he could speak, Titus answered quickly: "I said, Domitian, 'all I have.' This maid I have not, therefore the words do not apply.

I have decreed that the proceeds of the sale of these captives is to be divided equally between the wounded soldiers and the poor of Rome.

Therefore she is their property, not mine.


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