tailieunhanh - THE CITY OF DELIGHT

Although it was a late winter day the old man was clad in the free white garments of a midsummer afternoon, for to the sorrow of Philistia the cold season of the year sixty-nine had been warm, wet and miasmic. An old woman entering presently glanced at the closed windows of the apartment when she noted the flushed face of the merchant but she made no movement to have them opened. More than the warmth of the day was engaging the attention of the grave old man, and the woman, by dress and manner of equal rank with him, stood aside until he could give. | 1 A New Novel by lhe Author ol THE YOKE and SAUL OF TARSUS The CITY of DELIGHT By ELIZABETH THfc BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX THE CITY OF DELIGHT 2 Chapter XXI Chapter XXII Chapter XXIII Chapter XXIV THE CITY OF DELIGHT A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Elizabeth Miller Author of The Yoke and Saul of Tarsus With Illustrations by . Leyendecker Indianapolis The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers 1908 March Illustration To My Elder Brother Otto Miller CONTENTS I A Prince s Bride 1 II On the Road to Jerusalem 31 III The Shepherd of Pella 56 IV The Travelers 85 V By the Wayside 108 VI Dawn in the Hills 124 VII Imperial Cssar 148 VIII Greek and Jew 169 IX The Young Titus 189 X The Story of a Divine Tragedy 212 XI The House of Offense 233 XII The Prince Returns 253 XIII A New Pretender 274 Elizabeth Miller 3 XIV The Pride of Amaryllis 284 XV The Image of Jealousy 300 XVI The Spread Net 322 XVII The Tangled Web 337 XVIII In the Sunless Crypt 358 XIX The False Prophet 374 XX As the Foam upon Water 390 XXI The Faithful Servant 408 XXII Vanished Hopes 417 XXIII The Fulfilment 427 XXIV The Road to Pella 441 THE CITY OF .