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Pearl-Maiden

CHAPTER XXIII
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"But whither now?
Would you also march in the train of Titus ?" "Nay, woman, it is too late.

Also I know not what would be my welcome." "Your welcome?
Why, you were his friend, and Titus is faithful to his friends." "Aye, but perhaps not to those who have been taken prisoner by the enemy.

Towards the commencement of the siege that happened to a man I knew.

He was captured with a companion.

The companion the Jews slew, but as he was about to be beheaded upon the wall, this man slipped from the hands of the executioner, and leaping from it escaped with little hurt.
Titus gave him his life, but dismissed him from his legion.


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