I will go to town; when I return, I may talk to you fully.
Give me the letter." Ilderim rolled the papyrus carefully, restored it to its envelopes, and became once more all energy.
"What sayest thou ?" he asked, while waiting for his horse and retinue.

"I told what I would do, were I thou, and thou hast made no answer." "I intended to answer, sheik, and I will." Ben-Hur's countenance and voice changed with the feeling invoked.

"All thou hast said, I will do--all at least in the power of a man.

I devoted myself to vengeance long ago.

Every hour of the five years passed, I have lived with no other thought.