illustrationillustration'Because,' answered the President quietly, 'we did not think it fitting to deliver a child that was committed to our charge, to the care of one who had brought her father, and tried to bring her mother, his own seed, to the most horrible of deaths'Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of JerusalemThe Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1708Byam Shawhttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/illustrations/images/000/000/1797/original/becauseAnsweredTheGraphic549.jpg?1517096637Woodcut print. L: 21.2 , W: 23London: The Graphic Office, 23 August 1902.Woodcut print. L: 21.2 , W: 23Byam Shaw254The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1708The Graphic Office23 August 1902LondonUniversity of IowaPearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem

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'Because,' answered the President quietly, 'we did not think it fitting to deliver a child that was committed to our charge, to the care of one who had brought her father, and tried to bring her mother, his own seed, to the most horrible of deaths'