Yet I would declare myself. I love Rachel, and I would take her to
wife. Then, not even the Pharaoh could take her from me by law."
Deborah raised herself with difficulty, and after peering into the
inner chamber to see where Rachel was, approached him softly.
"Thou lovest Rachel. Aye, that is a tale I have heard oftener than I
have fingers to count upon. From the first men of her tribe I have
heard it, from the best of Egypt and the worst. But she kept her heart
and stayed by my side. Now thou comest, young, comely, gifted with
fair speech and full of fervor. Thou lovest as she would be loved, and
her heart goes out to thee, even as thou wouldst have it--in love."
Kenkenes' face glowed and his fine eyes shone with joy.
"But mark thou!" she continued passively. "If thou wouldst save her,
think upon some other way, for thou mayest not wed her. Jehovah
planteth the faith of Abraham anew in Israel. In Rachel and in
Rachel's house it died not during the hundred years of the bondage.
Therefore the name is godly. Of her, what would thy heart say? Hath
she not beauty, hath she not wisdom, hath she not great winsomeness?
There is none like her in these days among all the children of Abraham.
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