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Over all this immense slope the eyes of Costobarus wandered However

he had felt in the preceding days when he looked upon this ruin of the

land of milk and honey, he realized now suddenly and in all its

fearful actuality the predicaantic travail before those ould save it from the united

sentence passed upon it by God and the powers Immense dejection

seized him He looked fro of profit showed, toward the bowed head and oppressed

figure of his young and inexperienced daughter as to put her

tender self between Ruin and its victim Chills, succeeded by flashes

of fever, swept over hiive corown immeasurably older and

feebler in that moment of helpless surrender to conditions of which he

had been part an artificer It was not as if he had ame; it was, as it seeainst the Lord God of Hosts, and there was no

turning back!

He settled slowly into a stunned anguish that see out the sunset and the

seaboard, the bald earth and the strea darkness and intense cold

They were in sight of a cluster of Syrian huts, the first inhabited