The City of Delight - Elizabeth Miller
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News of the appearance of the plague in the house of Costobarus traveled fast after the death of the gardener, who had fallen in the open and in sight of the watchful inhabitants of Ascalon. So by the time the house servants of the merchant were made aware of their peril by the death of one of their own number, Philip of Tyre with the courage of affection and loyalty stood on the threshold of the guest-chamber informed of the situation and prepared to help. Hannah, supported by the Tyrian's assurance of her rescue and protection, succeeded in urging Costobarus and Laodice not to delay for her to the peril of the thrice precious daughter. So with his house yet ringing with the first convulsion of terror Costobarus ordered his party with all haste to the camels. Keturah, Laodice's handmaiden, had fainted with terror and was carried parcel-wise over the great arm of Momus, the mute, out into the street and deposited summarily on the floor of Laodice's bamboo howdah. The camel-driver, Hiram, seemed only a little less stupefied than she. The mute, with a face as determined and threatening as an uplifted gad, drove him from the shelter of a dark corner out to his place on the neck of his master's camel. Aquila, the emissary, showed the immemorial composure in the face of disaster that was the badge of the Roman in the days of the degenerate Cęsars, and, mounting his horse when the rest of the party were in their places, headed the procession toward the northeast. From an upper window behind a lattice, Hannah cried her farewells and fluttered her scarf. She was smiling the drawn, white smile of a mother who is forcing herself to be cheerful in the face of danger, for the peace of those she loves. Laodice understood the tender deception and when a sharp turn of the street cut off the sight of the plumy trees of the garden, she covered her face and wept inconsolably. On either side of the passage there came muffled sounds from houses; out of open alleys leading into interior courts stole the fetor of death that even the spice of burning unguents could not smother. The whole air shuddered with the drumming of heathen physicians in the pagan quarters, through which the silence of long stretches of ominously quiet houses shouted its meaning. At times frantic barefoot flights could be glimpsed as households deserted stricken houses, but whatever outcry arose came from bedsides. Ascalon fled as a frightened animal flees, silently and under cover.
Words: city flights, city garden, city houses, cover garden, flights air, flights city, garden corner, garden cover, garden houses, garden window, houses garden, party garden, rescue horse, stole white, white stole
Author: Miller, Elizabeth
Publisher: EbooksLib
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: The City of Delight
Pages: 00000 (MicrosoftReader.lit) / 00000 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2005-06-13
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781412147118
Category: Fiction : Historical - General
Words: city flights, city garden, city houses, cover garden, flights air, flights city, garden corner, garden cover, garden houses, garden window, houses garden, party garden, rescue horse, stole white, white stole
Author: Miller, Elizabeth
Publisher: EbooksLib
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: The City of Delight
Pages: 00000 (MicrosoftReader.lit) / 00000 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2005-06-13
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781412147118
Category: Fiction : Historical - General
User tags: ebook download, historical fiction, elizabeth miller, fiction, historical, general
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