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Pearl-Maiden

CHAPTER XXIII
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Presently old Nehushta joined him.

She also was clad in clean, white robes which the slave woman had found for her.
"Have you any news ?" asked Marcus impatiently.
"Some, lord, which I have pieced together from what is known by the slave-woman, and by your steward, Stephanus.

A beautiful Jewish captive is to walk in the Triumph and afterwards to be sold with other captives in the Forum.

They heard of her because it is said that there has been a quarrel between Titus and his brother Domitian, and Vespasian also, on account of this woman." "A quarrel?
What quarrel ?" "I, or rather your servants, know little of it, but they have heard that Domitian demanded the girl as a gift, whereon Titus told him that if he wished for her, he might buy her.

Then the matter was referred to Vespasian Caesar, who upheld the decree of Titus.


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