The little Tirzah, in her home attire, stupefied with fear, went passively with her keepers.

Judah gave each of them a last look, and covered his face with his hands, as if to possess himself of the scene fadelessly.

He may have shed tears, though no one saw them.
There took place in him then what may be justly called the wonder of life.

The thoughtful reader of these pages has ere this discerned enough to know that the young Jew in disposition was gentle even to womanliness--a result that seldom fails the habit of loving and being loved.

The circumstances through which he had come had made no call upon the harsher elements of his nature, if such he had.
At times he had felt the stir and impulses of ambition, but they had been like the formless dreams of a child walking by the sea and gazing at the coming and going of stately ships.