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Well
might
they
look
.
They
were
small
breeds
,
lighter-boned
and
lighter-thewed
,
these
Romans
and
Jews
,
and
a
blonde
like
me
they
had
never
gazed
upon
.
All
along
the
narrow
streets
they
gave
before
me
but
stood
to
stare
wide-eyed
at
this
yellow
man
from
the
north
,
or
from
God
knew
where
so
far
as
they
knew
aught
of
the
matter
.
Practically
all
Pilate
's
troops
were
auxiliaries
,
save
for
a
handful
of
Romans
about
the
palace
and
the
twenty
Romans
who
rode
with
me
.
Often
enough
have
I
found
the
auxiliaries
good
soldiers
,
but
never
so
steadily
dependable
as
the
Romans
.
In
truth
they
were
better
fighting
men
the
year
round
than
were
we
men
of
the
North
,
who
fought
in
great
moods
and
sulked
in
great
moods
.
The
Roman
was
invariably
steady
and
dependable
.
There
was
a
woman
from
the
court
of
Antipas
,
who
was
a
friend
of
Pilate
's
wife
and
whom
I
met
at
Pilate
's
the
night
of
my
arrival
.
I
shall
call
her
Miriam
,
for
Miriam
was
the
name
I
loved
her
by
.
If
it
were
merely
difficult
to
describe
the
charm
of
women
,
I
would
describe
Miriam
.
But
how
describe
emotion
in
words
?
The
charm
of
woman
is
wordless
.
It
is
different
from
perception
that
culminates
in
reason
,
for
it
arises
in
sensation
and
culminates
in
emotion
,
which
,
be
it
admitted
,
is
nothing
else
than
super-sensation
.
In
general
,
any
woman
has
fundamental
charm
for
any
man
.
When
this
charm
becomes
particular
,
then
we
call
it
love
.
Miriam
had
this
particular
charm
for
me
.
Verily
I
was
co-partner
in
her
charm
.
Half
of
it
was
my
own
man
's
life
in
me
that
leapt
and
met
her
wide-armed
and
made
in
me
all
that
she
was
desirable
plus
all
my
desire
of
her
.
Miriam
was
a
grand
woman
.
I
use
the
term
advisedly
.
She
was
fine-bodied
,
commanding
,
over
and
above
the
average
Jewish
woman
in
stature
and
in
line
.
She
was
an
aristocrat
in
social
caste
;
she
was
an
aristocrat
by
nature
.
All
her
ways
were
large
ways
,
generous
ways
.
She
had
brain
,
she
had
wit
,
and
,
above
all
,
she
had
womanliness
.
As
you
shall
see
,
it
was
her
womanliness
that
betrayed
her
and
me
in
they
end
.
Brunette
,
olive-skinned
,
oval-faced
,
her
hair
was
blue-black
with
its
blackness
and
her
eyes
were
twin
wells
of
black
.
Never
were
more
pronounced
types
of
blonde
and
brunette
in
man
and
woman
met
than
in
us
.
And
we
met
on
the
instant
.
There
was
no
self-discussion
,
no
waiting
,
wavering
,
to
make
certain
.
She
was
mine
the
moment
I
looked
upon
her
.
And
by
the
same
token
she
knew
that
I
belonged
to
her
above
all
men
.
I
strode
to
her
.
She
half-lifted
from
her
couch
as
if
drawn
upward
to
me
.
And
then
we
looked
with
all
our
eyes
,
blue
eyes
and
black
,
until
Pilate
's
wife
,
a
thin
,
tense
,
overwrought
woman
,
laughed
nervously
.
And
while
I
bowed
to
the
wife
and
gave
greeting
,
I
thought
I
saw
Pilate
give
Miriam
a
significant
glance
,
as
if
to
say
,
"
Is
he
not
all
I
promised
?
"
For
he
had
had
word
of
my
coming
from
Sulpicius
Quirinius
,
the
legate
of
Syria
.
As
well
had
Pilate
and
I
been
known
to
each
other
before
ever
he
journeyed
out
to
be
procurator
over
the
Semitic
volcano
of
Jerusalem
.
Much
talk
we
had
that
night
,
especially
Pilate
,
who
spoke
in
detail
of
the
local
situation
,
and
who
seemed
lonely
and
desirous
to
share
his
anxieties
with
some
one
and
even
to
bid
for
counsel
.
Pilate
was
of
the
solid
type
of
Roman
,
with
sufficient
imagination
intelligently
to
enforce
the
iron
policy
of
Rome
,
and
not
unduly
excitable
under
stress
.
But
on
this
night
it
was
plain
that
he
was
worried
.
The
Jews
had
got
on
his
nerves
.
They
were
too
volcanic
,
spasmodic
,
eruptive
.
And
further
,
they
were
subtle
.
The
Romans
had
a
straight
,
forthright
way
of
going
about
anything
.
The
Jews
never
approached
anything
directly
,
save
backwards
,
when
they
were
driven
by
compulsion
.
Left
to
themselves
,
they
always
approached
by
indirection
.
