Ah! you change color." He drew back from her with somewhat of the look which may be imagined upon the face of a man who, thinking to play with a kitten, has run upon a tiger; and she proceeded: "You are acquainted in the antechamber, and know the Lord Sejanus.
Suppose it were told him with the proofs in hand--or without the proofs--that the same Jew is the richest man in the East--nay, in all the empire.

The fishes of the Tiber would have fattening other than that they dig out of its ooze, would they not?
And while they were feeding--ha! son of Hur!--what splendor there would be on exhibition in the Circus! Amusing the Roman people is a fine art; getting the money to keep them amused is another art even finer; and was there ever an artist the equal of the Lord Sejanus ?" Ben-Hur was not too much stirred by the evident baseness of the woman for recollection.

Not unfrequently when all the other faculties are numb and failing memory does its offices with the greatest fidelity.

The scene at the spring on the way to the Jordan reproduced itself; and he remembered thinking then that Esther had betrayed him, and thinking so now, he said calmly as he could, "To give you pleasure, daughter of Egypt, I acknowledge your cunning, and that I am at your mercy.

It may also please you to hear me acknowledge I have no hope of your favor.