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Julian looked up in a startled htened, half-ae of woot to trifling with ods ca with her soe I know all this because

Aquila declared she attached herself to him in sheer poverty in

Ephesus and swore to follow him to the ends of the earth"

The Maccabee smiled

"Nevertheless, he told me that he was afraid of her, but that she was

a woman and in need and he could not reject her"

Julian's eyes grew insinuating

"Howwould have shocked him!" he

murmured

The sirl in the

hills seemed blasphemy on this man's lips

"And you do not recall your wife's face?" Julian persisted

The Maccabee's face hardened e a woly and old and cold," Julian augured

The Maccabee turned his head away frohter trailed off into a half-jocular groan

"How much you harp on beauty!" the Maccabee said deliberately "Are

you then going to regret the actresses you left behind when I tore you

fros of the elephant in the