For when the messenger arrives bringing to you and to this youth the liberty for which you have longed, it will be Kasana to whom you owe it." Rapt by the fervor of the wish that animated her, her beautiful face glowed with a crimson flush.

Joshua seized her right hand, exclaiming: "Ah, if you could attain what your loyal soul desires! How could I dissuade you from mitigating the great misfortune which overtook this youth in your house?
Yet, as an honest man, I must tell you that I shall never return to the service of the Egyptians; for, come what may, I shall in future cleave, body and soul, to those you persecute and despise, and to whom belonged the mother who bore me." Kasana's graceful head drooped; but directly after she raised it again, saying: "No other man is so noble, so truthful, that I have known from my childhood.

If I can find no one among my own nation whom I can honor, I will remember you, whose every thought is true and lofty, whose nature is faultless.

Put if poor Kasana succeeds in liberating you, do not scorn her, if you find her worse than when you left her, for however she may humiliate herself, whatever shame may come upon her...." "What do you intend ?" Hosea anxiously interrupted; but she had no time to answer; for the captain of the guard had risen and, clapping his hands, shouted: "Forward, you moles!" and "Step briskly." The warrior's stout heart was overwhelmed with tender sadness and, obeying a hasty impulse, he kissed the beautiful unhappy woman on the brow and hair, whispering: "Leave me in my misery, if our freedom will cost your humiliation.

We shall probably never meet again; for, whatever may happen, my life will henceforth be nothing but battle and sacrifice.