Would I be consistent to claim to be that which in no wise shows to be in me ?" "It is time to be a Jew or against the Jews," she said gravely.

"There is no middle ground concerning Judea at this hour." Serious words from the lips of a woman in whom a man expects to find entertainment are obtrusive, a paradox.

Still the new generosity in his heart for this girl made any manner she chose, engaging, so that it showed him the sight of her face and gave him the sound of her voice.
"Seeing," he said, "that it is the hour of the Jewish hope, is it politic for us to declare ourselves for its benefits ?" "The call at this hour," she exclaimed reproachfully, "is to be great in sacrifice--not for reward.

It is the word of the prophets that we shall not attain glory until we have suffered for it.

We have not yet made the beginning." She touched so familiarly on his own thoughts which had haunted him since ambition had awakened in him in his boyhood, that his interest in his own hope surged to the fore.
"How goes it in Jerusalem ?" he asked earnestly.
"Evilly, they say," she answered, "but I have not been in the city.
Yet you see Judea.