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Laodice leaned forward suddenly and hung on the woman's words

"The ti

tienerosity of his repentance, ye shall ask

and nothing shall be denied Speak! Ask! The whole world, Heaven and

earth and the delights of all the years are yours, now and for all

time!"

At Laodice's side was Ahted

with a certain enlightenhtened Laodice lance at the Maccabee

The voice of the prophetess swept on: "Ye have bowed to tyrants and bent your necks to ers and shared not in the spoils Why are ye

hungry now? Who is full-fed in these days of want, yourselves or your

masters? A sword, a sword is drawn; uphold the arm that wields it!"

"Sedition!" Aan to muro forth with great fury to destroy and utterly

to make away many!"

Amaryllis bent so she could whisper in Laodice's ear

"John hath taken him a neoh Philadelphus' wife hath supplanted me Your place

with him is vacant Go back and possess it!"

"Why was appetite and desire and thirst of power and the love of

riches lighted in you, but to be satisfied?" The prophetess' words

swept in after Laodice's sudden fear of returning to Philadelphus "We