gh; so the angry lady
struck the Jewess with her foot between the eyebrows."

The prince sprang up.

"And what did Sarah do?" inquired he, quickly.

"She fell to the pavement. And when the new mistress commanded her to
go, she went out, weeping noiselessly."

The prince walked up and down in the chamber.

"How did she pass the night?"

"The new lady?"

"No! I ask about Sarah."

"According to command, Sarah went with her child to the servants'
house. The women, from compassion, yielded a fresh mat to her, but she
did not lie down to sleep; she sat the whole night with her child on
her knees."

"But how is the child?" asked Ramses.

"The child is well. This morning, when the Jewess went to serve her new
mistress, the other women bathed the little one in warm water, and the
shepherd's wife, who also has an infant, gave her breast to it."

The prince stopped before the steward.

"It is wrong," said he, "when a cow instead of suckling its calf goes
to the plough and is beaten. Though this Jewess has committed a great
offence, I do not wish that her innocent child should be a sufferer.
Therefore Sarah will not wash the feet of the new lady again, and will
not be kicked between the eyes by her a second time. Thou wilt set
aside for her use in the servants' house a room with food and furniture
such as are proper for a woman recovered recently from childbirth. And
let her nourish her infant in peace there."

"Live Thou through eternity, our ruler!" answered the steward; and he
ran quickly to carry out the commands of the viceroy.

All the servants loved Sarah, and in a few days they had occasion to
hate the angry and turbulent Kama.

CHAPTER XXXIX

THE priestess brought little happiness to the viceroy. When he came the
first time to visit her in the villa occupied recently by Sarah, he
thought: "I shall be met with delight now and gratitude."

Meanwhile Kama received him almost with anger.

"What is this?" cried she. "A half day has passed, and that wretched
Jewess is restored to thy favor."

"Does she not dwell in the servants' house?" asked the prince.

"But my steward says that she will wash my feet no longer."

When the prince heard this, a feeling of disgust seized him.

"Thou art not satisfied, I see," said he.

"I shall not be satisfied till I humiliate that Jewess," cried Kama,
"till she, by serving me and kneeling at my feet, forgets that she was
once thy first woman and the mistress of