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Pearl-Maiden

A Tale Of The Fall of Jerusalem

by H. Rider Haggard

First Published 1901.

Contents

CHAPTER I. THE PRISON AT CÆSAREA
CHAPTER II. THE VOICE OF A GOD
CHAPTER III. THE GRAIN STORE
CHAPTER IV. THE BIRTH OF MIRIAM
CHAPTER V. MIRIAM IS ENTHRONED
CHAPTER VI. CALEB
CHAPTER VII. MARCUS
CHAPTER VIII. MARCUS AND CALEB
CHAPTER IX. THE JUSTICE OF FLORUS
CHAPTER X. BENONI
CHAPTER XI. THE ESSENES LOSE THEIR QUEEN
CHAPTER XII. THE RING, THE NECKLACE AND THE LETTER
CHAPTER XIII. WOE, WOE TO JERUSALEM
CHAPTER XIV. THE ESSENES FIND THEIR QUEEN AGAIN
CHAPTER XV. WHAT PASSED IN THE TOWER
CHAPTER XVI. THE SANHEDRIM
CHAPTER XVII. THE GATE OF NICANOR
CHAPTER XVIII. THE DEATH-STRUGGLE OF ISRAEL
CHAPTER XIX. PEARL-MAIDEN
CHAPTER XX. THE MERCHANT DEMETRIUS
CHAPTER XXI. THE CÆSARS AND PRINCE DOMITIAN
CHAPTER XXII. THE TRIUMPH
CHAPTER XXIII. THE SLAVE-RING
CHAPTER XXIV. MASTER AND SLAVE
CHAPTER XXV. THE REWARD OF SATURIUS
CHAPTER XXVI. THE JUDGMENT OF DOMITIAN
CHAPTER XXVII. THE BISHOP CYRIL
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE LAMP
CHAPTER XXIX. HOW MARCUS CHANGED HIS FAITH

TO GLADYS CHRISTIAN A DWELLER IN THE EAST
THIS EASTERN TALE IS DEDICATED
BY HER OWN AND
HER FATHER’S FRIEND

THE AUTHOR
Ditchingham: September 14, 1902.

PEARL-MAIDEN

CHAPTER I
THE PRISON AT CÆSAREA

It was but two hours after midnight, yet many were wakeful in Cæsarea on theSyrian coast. Herod Agrippa, King of all Palestine—by grace of theRomans—now at the very apex of his power, celebrated a festival in honourof the Emperor Claudius,

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