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Laodice sat very still and listened There was enough similarity in

this story to interest her

The Maccabee, seeing that he hadsohted with his deceit

"He has not seen her since he married her in his childhood, but he

knows full well how she will look when heand dangerous companion of

this man, her husband?

The Maccabee, meanwhile, deliberately re up a picture of the wo to his expectations, be htful women and women with a purpose are never plump! And

she will be black and pale, all eyes, with a nose which is not the

noble nose of our race She will be religious and it will not make her

happy She will realize her value to her husband and he will not be

peret it She will be aer part of his fah not so ot upon her feet in her agitation and raised her veil to

stare at this slander Was this a picture of herself she heard? The

Maccabee was enjoying hiarments of a queen, but--how little a slip of

silver tissue will becoarment, and reached for