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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

CHAPTER I
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Why, thou hast not even got back thy land legs." "By Castor! if a man may swear a woman's oath," said another, somewhat worse of wine, "let us not lament.

Our Quintus is but going to find what he lost last night.

Dice on a rolling ship is not dice on shore--eh, Quintus ?" "Abuse not Fortune!" exclaimed a third.

"She is not blind or fickle.

At Antium, where our Arrius questions her, she answers him with nods, and at sea she abides with him holding the rudder.
She takes him from us, but does she not always give him back with a new victory ?" "The Greeks are taking him away," another broke in.


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