[The Scapegoat by Hall Caine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Scapegoat CHAPTER XIX 8/12
She is walking through the mocking and jeering crowd, but see! God Himself is walking beside her!" The procession had now come to the walled lane to the Bab Toot, the gate going out to Tangier and to Shawan.
There the way was so narrow and the concourse so great that for a moment the procession was brought to a stand.
Seizing this opportunity, Reuben Maliki stepped up to Israel and said, so that all might hear, "Look at the crowds that have come out to speed you, O saviour of your people! Look! look! We shall all remember this day!" "So you shall!" cried Israel.
"Until your days of death you shall all remember it!" He had not spoken before, and some of the Moors tried to laugh at his answer; but his voice, which was like a frenzied cry, went to the hearts of the Jews, and many of them fell away from the crowd straightway, and followed it no farther.
It was the cry of the voice of a brother.
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