Category: Historical Novels
The fifth day of the first month of summer had come, and in a sunset of gold and purple hues, the Nile was glorified; birds had ceased their songs, the air was heavy with the perfume of flowers, and away to the westward the evening star was setting.
The ladies-in-waiting upon the Princess Hatsu were weary of the funeral pomp and circumstance by which they had been for so many weeks environed, and one and all hailed with del...
4. CHAPTER IV."It is well, oh spirit. And although now, thou dost abide in a clay tenement, that the humanity of this generation, name Miriam, the Israelitish maiden, I know full well that th...
3. CHAPTER III.Miriam stood watching in silence the form of her mistress the Princess Hatsu until she had disappeared from sight in a curve of the avenue, or path, then she sat herself down up...
10. CHAPTER II.The house was two stories in height, the ground being used for the servants' quarters, offices, store-rooms, and the like, while the upper floor, was divided into commodious apa...
6. CHAPTER VI.As Miriam uttered the last words, Alric replaced the glass disk that he had been holding, in the bosom of his toga, he dropped his raised hands, and the Israelite closed her eye...
12. CHAPTER IV.Then it was that Hatsu spoke. "Bring in the prophets of Israel," she said, "that they may hear the King's decree and so waste no more time in idle hoping."
5. CHAPTER V."'That night the white slave slept upon the King of Egypt's breast and the boy (her brother) the king in his pleasure, made such provision for that he was safe and happy evermor...
17. CHAPTER IX."The shadows of life are gathering thick and fast, and my long day on earth is drawing to its close, and I fain would write, ere it be too late, that which the world should know...
11. CHAPTER III.Even as he speaks there is a shuffling of feet heard, and into the room led by a beautiful child--a boy of eight years old--comes a something that makes even the strong men pres...
13. CHAPTER V.In one of the summer houses--or arbors--of the King's garden, Miriam sat that day as the sun went down, her eyes fixed upon the forms of the King, and the little Prince, his son...
1. CHAPTER I.The fifth day of the first month of summer had come, and in a sunset of gold and purple hues, the Nile was glorified; birds had ceased their songs, the air was heavy with the pe...
15. CHAPTER VII.In an upper room in the palace lay the little Prince. Through the open casement the moon looked in. Kneeling beside him was Miriam, her face buried in her hands, her body shaken...
7. CHAPTER VII.Miriam had begun to stir, she raised her head, opened her eyes, and rubbed them sleepily as a child does in the early morning; then, she looked up, and saw Alric standing beside...
8. CHAPTER VIII."Some force, that is resistless, doth command me to on this night, take pen and papyrus page, and write upon it, much that fills my mind. I seem impelled to speak words concerni...
16. CHAPTER VIII.Beside the little bed on which lay the dead child knelt Miriam, and at the foot of the couch stood the Queen and Alric. It would have been hard to tell which of the two faces (t...
9. CHAPTER I.Eighteen times has the year been born, grown old, and died, since in the vaulted sarcophagus, in the city of Abydos Hatsu, Miriam, and Alric, stood and spoke with one another.
14. CHAPTER VI.And now the prophecy had been fulfilled. The once fair land lay a barren waste. Egypt so long in thralldom to her myriad gods, was helpless, speechless, and prayerless, before t...