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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

CHAPTER VIII
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I sought a laugh at them--the laugh is theirs.

Good may it do them!" The good-natured, careless look and gesture he threw the bystanders accorded well with the speech.

To hear what more he had to say, they became quiet.

Assured of victory over the body of the offended, he signed his companion to take the chariot to a safer distance, and addressed himself boldly to the woman.
"Thou hast interest in the good man here, whose pardon, if not granted now, I shall seek with the greater diligence hereafter; his daughter, I should say." She made him no reply.
"By Pallas, thou art beautiful! Beware Apollo mistake thee not for his lost love.

I wonder what land can boast herself thy mother.
Turn not away.


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