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Title: The City of Delight
A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem
Author: Elizabeth Miller
Illustrator: F. X. Leyendecker
Release Date: May 31, 2005 [EBook #15953]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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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
F.X. Leyendecker
Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers
1908
March
[Illustration]
To
My Elder Brother
Otto Miller
CONTENTS
Chapter Page
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 Caesar 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
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 DELIGHT
Chapter I
A PRINCE'S BRIDE
The chief merchant of Ascalon stood in the guest-chamber of his house.
Although it was a late winter day the old man wa
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