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| Ben hur |
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| Sealing them to thee and thine forever." Ben-Hur continued, with better control of himself, "with one exception, and upon one condition." The breath of the listeners waited upon his words. "The hundred and twenty talents which were my father's thou shalt return to me." Ilderim's countenance brightened. "And thou shalt join me in search of my mother and sister, holding all thine subject to the expense of discovery, even as I will hold mine." Simonides was much affected. Stretching out his hand, he said, "I see thy spirit, son of Hur, and I am grateful to the Lord that he hath sent thee to me such as thou art. If I served well thy father in life, and his memory afterwards, be not afraid of default to thee; yet must I say the exception cannot stand." Exhibiting, then, the reserved sheet, he continued. |