The gods you have drunk to are false gods.

Why shall I not tell the rabbis on you ?" "Oh!" he replied, laughing, "that is very little to tell for one who knows so much else that is really important." "I will go further--I will go to the little Jewess who makes the roses grow and the shadows flame in the house of the great merchant over in Antioch.

To the rabbis I will accuse you of impenitence; to her--" "Well, to her ?" "I will repeat what you have said to me under the lifted cup, with the gods for witnesses." He was still a moment, as if waiting for the Egyptian to go on.
With quickened fancy he saw Esther at her father's side listening to the despatches he had forwarded--sometimes reading them.

In her presence he had told Simonides the story of the affair in the Palace of Idernee.

She and Iras were acquainted; this one was shrewd and worldly; the other was simple and affectionate, and therefore easily won.