To her it was a serious problem to decide whether
the lightness of the sculptor's tone were mockery or good fellowship.
Kenkenes noted her silence and spoke again.
"Perchance I ask after a hieratic secret. If so, forgive the blunder."
"Nay," she replied at once. "It is no secret. All Egypt will know of
it ere long. God hath prepared us a land wherein we may dwell under no
master but Jehovah. We go hence shortly to enter it. The captain of
Israel will lead us thither and Jehovah will show him the way. Abraham
was informed that it was a wondrous land wherein the olive and the
grape will crown the hills; the corn will fill the valleys; the cattle
and sheep, the pasture lands. There will be many rivers instead of one
and the desert will lie afar off from its confines. The sun will shine
and the rain will fall and the winds will blow as man needeth them, and
there will be no slavery and no heavy life therein. The land shall be
Israel's and its enemies shall crouch without its borders, confounded
at the splendor of the children of God. And there will our princes
arise and a throne be set up and a mighty nation established. Cities
will shine white and strong-walled on the heights, and caravans of
commerce will follow down the broad roadways to the sea.
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