You might have been the greatest of the great, the happiest of the happy--this I have learned, but you made a different choice." "Because duty commanded it," Joshua answered gravely, "because I will no longer serve any one save the people among whom I was born." "The people ?" exclaimed Ephraim, contemptuously.

"I know them, and you met them at Succoth.

The poor are miserable wretches who cringe under the lash; the rich value their cattle above all else and, if they are the heads of the tribes, quarrel with one another.

No one knows aught of what pleases the eye and the heart.

They call me one of the richest of the race and yet I shudder when I think of the house I inherited, one of the best and largest.