and their faces shall look one to another.' Who will say they were not beautiful?
or that they were not the first statues ?" "Oh, I see now why the Greek outstripped us," said Judah, intensely interested.

"And the ark; accursed be the Babylonians who destroyed it!" "Nay, Judah, be of faith.

It was not destroyed, only lost, hidden away too safely in some cavern of the mountains.

One day--Hillel and Shammai both say so--one day, in the Lord's good time, it will be found and brought forth, and Israel dance before it, singing as of old.

And they who look upon the faces of the cherubim then, though they have seen the face of the ivory Minerva, will be ready to kiss the hand of the Jew from love of his genius, asleep through all the thousands of years." The mother, in her eagerness, had risen into something like the rapidity and vehemence of a speech-maker; but now, to recover herself, or to pick up the thread of her thought, she rested awhile.
"You are so good, my mother," he said, in a grateful way.