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| Ben hur |
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| to me, good my master, I seemed to hear the answer I had so long waited; God's purpose burst upon me. Poor will the King be when he comes--poor and friendless; without following, without armies, without cities or castles; a kingdom to be set up, and Rome reduced and blotted out. See, see, O my master! thou flushed with strength, thou trained to arms, thou burdened with riches; behold the opportunity the Lord hath sent thee! Shall not his purpose be thine? Could a man be born to a more perfect glory?" Simonides put his whole force in the appeal. "But the kingdom, the kingdom!" Ben-Hur answered, eagerly. "Balthasar says it is to be of souls." The pride of the Jew was strong in Simonides, and therefore the slightly contemptuous curl of the lip with which he began his reply: "Balthasar has been a witness of wonderful things--of miracles, O my master; and when he speaks of them, I bow with belief, for they are of sight and sound personal to him. |