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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

CHAPTER X
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Rising slowly, she looked at them; then passed to the door and out of it without a parting word.

She walked rapidly, and was gone before Esther could decide what to do.
Ben-Hur, when he was told of the visit, knew certainly what he had long surmised--that on the day of the crucifixion Iras had deserted her father for Messala.

Nevertheless, he set out immediately and hunted for her vainly; they never saw her more, or heard of her.
The blue bay, with all its laughing under the sun, has yet its dark secrets.

Had it a tongue, it might tell us of the Egyptian.
Simonides lived to be a very old man.

In the tenth year of Nero's reign, he gave up the business so long centred in the warehouse at Antioch.


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