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Pearl-Maiden

CHAPTER I
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They killed him in the amphitheatre yonder at Berytus six months ago," and the poor woman began to sob.
"I heard of his end," replied Anna.

"It was a good and noble one, and his soul rests in Heaven.

He would not fight with the gladiators, so he was beheaded by order of Agrippa.

But cease weeping, child, and tell me your story.

We have little time for tears, who, perhaps, soon will have done with them." Rachel dried her eyes.
"It is short and sad," she said.


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