[Elissa by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookElissa CHAPTER XIII 1/14
THE SACRILEGE OF AZIEL How long he lay in his dungeon, lost in bitter thought and tormented by fears for Elissa, Aziel could not tell, for no light came there to mark the passage of the hours.
In the tumult of his mind, one terrible thought grew clear and ever clearer; he and Elissa had been taken red-handed, and must pay the price of their sin against the religious customs of the city.
For the Baaltis to be found with any man who was not her husband meant death to him and her, a doom from which there was little chance of escape. Well, to his own fate he was almost indifferent, but for Elissa and Issachar he mourned bitterly.
Truly the Levite and Metem had been wise when they cautioned him, for her sake and his own, to have nothing to do with a priestess of Baal.
But he had not listened; his heart would not let him listen--and now, unless they were saved by a miracle--or Metem--in the fulness of their youth and love, the lives of both of them were forfeited. Worn out with sore fears and vain regrets Aziel fell at length into a heavy sleep.
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