Moreover, that which he desired he would have, if by any means it could be obtained, and was faithful in his loves as in his hates.

Of these hates Nehushta was one.

With all the skill of a Libyan, whose only book is that of Nature and men's faces, she read the boy's heart at once and said openly that he might come to be the first in any cause--if he did not betray it--and that when God mixed his blood of the best, lest Caesar should find a rival He left out the salt of honesty and filled up the cup with the wine of passion.

When these sayings were repeated to Caleb by Miriam, who thought them to be a jest fit to tease her playmate with, he did not fly into one of his tempers, as she had hoped, but only screwed up his eyelids after his fashion in certain moods, and looked black as the rain-storm above Mount Nebo.
"Did you hear, Caleb ?" asked Miriam, somewhat disappointed.
"Oh, yes! Lady Miriam," for so he had been ordered to call her.

"I heard.