So far as I am concerned, the prince has good reason to hate me." Kasana laid her hand upon his lips, pointed anxiously to Ephraim and the guide, and said gently: "Spare my father! The prince--what roused his enmity...." "The profligate seeks to lure you into his snare and has learned that you favor me," the warrior broke in.

She bent her head with a gesture of assent, and added blushing: "That is why Aarsu, whom he has won over to his cause, watches you so strictly." "And the Syrian will keep his eyes sufficiently wide open," cried Joshua.

"Now let us talk no more of this.

I believe you and thank you warmly for following us hapless mortals.

How fondly I used to think, while serving in the field, of the pretty child, whom I saw blooming into maidenhood." "And you will think of her still with neither wrath nor rancor ?" "Gladly, most gladly." The young widow, with passionate emotion, seized the prisoner's hand to raise it to her lips, but he withdrew it; and, gazing at him with tears in her eyes, she said mournfully: "You deny me the favor a benefactor does not refuse even to a beggar." Then, suddenly drawing herself up to her full height, she exclaimed so loudly that the warder started and glanced at the sun: "But I tell you the time will come when you will sue for the favor of kissing this hand in gratitude.