So would you look when you, too, had reached a ripe old age, as I said to myself, when I met him at the harbor, or in the fore-court of the palace, directing the shepherds who were driving the cattle and fleecy sheep to the tax-receiver's table.

And now his son's obstinacy must embitter every day of his old age." "Now," replied Joshua, "he has a son who is going, laden with chains, to endure a life of misery, but who can hold his head higher than those who betrayed him.

They, and Pharaoh at their head, have forgotten that he has shed his heart's blood for them on many a battlefield, and kept faith with the king at every peril.

Menephtah, his vice-roy and chief, whose life I saved, and many who formerly called me friend, have abandoned and hurled me and this guiltless boy into wretchedness, but those who have done this, woman, who have committed this crime, may they all...." "Do not curse them!" interrupted Kasana with glowing cheeks.
But Joshua, unheeding her entreaty, exclaimed "Should I be a man, if I forgot vengeance ?" The young widow clung anxiously to his arm, gasping in beseeching accents: "How could you forgive him?
Only you must not curse him; for my father became your foe through love for me.

You know his hot blood, which so easily carries him to extremes, despite his years.