She did not always hear him.
Wherever on the land men go, and on the sea ships, the face and figure of the Jew are familiar.

The physical type of the race has always been the same; yet there have been some individual variations.
"Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to." Such was the son of Jesse when brought before Samuel.
The fancies of men have been ever since ruled by the description.
Poetic license has extended the peculiarities of the ancestor to his notable descendants.

So all our ideal Solomons have fair faces, and hair and beard chestnut in the shade, and of the tint of gold in the sun.

Such, we are also made believe, were the locks of Absalom the beloved.

And, in the absence of authentic history, tradition has dealt no less lovingly by her whom we are now following down to the native city of the ruddy king.
She was not more than fifteen.