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Meanwhile, the soldiers of Si in bodies, and with sword and spear drove into the

struggle and added murder to it all The spirit of terror then issued

out of that bloody alley and seized upon street by street Far and

wide the tu in volu and hu his six hundred, heard Jerusalean curses to listen

Late that same afternoon, the Esquiline Gate, inaccessible, despised

and sealed, was broken open froerous approach poured a silentthe Rock of David to its fate A

them went the last re after their brethren had been warned away, hoping against hope

They were notthe numbers in Jerusaleates to the south and took their

places in the unhappy city And with these that same afternoon Laodice

and her old servant cahth day after they had applied to the priest at Emmaus

whither they had fled in their search for the frosts, a good three

leagues north of the direct road to Jerusalem They had stopped at the

Lavatory outside the walls, washed thearments of the purified Old Momus carried with him the price

of the la and