Pearlmaiden

By Haggard, Henry Rider

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Title:	Pearlmaiden
Author:	Haggard, Henry Rider
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: Chapter 1. THE PRISON AT CAESAREA. It was but two hours after midnight, yet many were wakeful in Caesarea on the Syrian coast. Herod Agrippa, King of all Palestine by grace of the Romans now at the very apex of his power, celebrated a festival in honour of the Emperor Claudius, to which had flocked all the mightiest in the land and tens of thousands of the people. The city was full of them, their camps were set upon the sea?beach and for miles around; there was no room at the inns or in the private houses, where guests slept upon the roofs, the couches, the floors, and in the gardens. The great town hummed like a hive of bees disturbed after sunset, and though the louder sounds of revelling had died away, parties of feasters, many of them still crowned with fading roses, passed along the streets shouting and singing to their lodgings. As they went, they discussed those of them who were sufficiently sober the incidents of that day?s games in the great circus, and offered or accepted odds upon the more exciting events of the morrow.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Pearl?Maiden, 1 -- H. Rider Haggard, 1 -- Chapter I. THE PRISON AT C’SAREA, 2 -- Chapter II. THE VOICE OF A GOD, 8 -- Chapter III. THE GRAIN STORE, 13 -- Chapter IV. THE BIRTH OF MIRIAM, 20 -- Chapter V. MIRIAM IS ENTHRONED, 25 -- Chapter VI. CALEB, 30 -- Chapter VII. MARCUS, 37 -- Chapter VIII. MARCUS AND CALEB, 44 -- Chapter IX. THE JUSTICE OF FLORUS, 52 -- Chapter X. BENONI, 59 -- Chapter XI. THE ESSENES LOSE THEIR QUEEN, 68 -- Chapter XII. THE RING, THE NECKLACE AND THE LETTER, 72 -- Chapter XIII. WOE, WOE TO JERUSALEM, 81 -- Chapter XIV. THE ESSENES FIND THEIR QUEEN AGAIN, 90 -- Chapter XV. WHAT PASSED IN THE TOWER, 97 -- Chapter XVI. THE SANHEDRIM, 106 -- Chapter XVII. THE GATE OF NICANOR, 114 -- Chapter XVIII. THE DEATH?STRUGGLE OF ISRAEL, 121 -- Chapter XIX. PEARL?MAIDEN, 128 -- Chapter XX. THE MERCHANT DEMETRIUS, 134 -- Chapter XXI. THE C’SARS AND PRINCE DOMITIAN, 143 -- Chapter XXII. THE TRIUMPH, 151 -- Chapter XXIII. THE SLAVE?RING, 157 -- Chapter XXIV. MASTER AND SLAVE, 165 -- Chapter XXV. THE REWARD OF SATURIUS, 176 -- Chapter XXVI. THE JUDGMENT OF DOMITIAN, 182 -- Chapter XXVII. THE BISHOP CYRIL, 190 -- Chapter XXVIII. THE LAMP, 199 -- Chapter XXIX. HOW MARCUS CHANGED HIS FAITH, 206 -- Pearl?Maiden -- i