novelnovelPearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of JerusalemPearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalemhttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/editions/images/000/000/366/original/pearlMaidenTheGraphicCover9.jpg?1516727678In H. Rider Haggard's historical romance Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem, the beautiful Christian Miriam must escape persecution for her faith, while balancing the affections of rivals Marcus the Roman a...In H. Rider Haggard's historical romance <span style="font-style:italic;">Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem</span>, the beautiful Christian Miriam must escape persecution for her faith, while balancing the affections of rivals Marcus the Roman and Caleb the Jew. <span style="font-style:italic;">The Graphic</span> used illustrations by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/10">Byam Shaw</a> in the initial serialization of <span style="font-style:italic;">PM</span> which ran from 5 July through 27 December 1902. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, published the first book edition of <span style="font-style:italic;">PM</span> on 2 March 1903, which was accompanied by 16 of Shaw’s full-page woodcut prints. Longmans issued 10,000 copies for this printing. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, published the first US edition on 13 March 1903 which included 26 of Shaw's illustrations. <h4>Further Reading</h4> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Pocock, Tom. <span style="font-style:italic;">Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire</span>. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 119. Print.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Whatmore, D.E.. <span style="font-style:italic;">H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography</span>. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F25, 39-40. Print.</p>
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Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
In H. Rider Haggard's historical romance Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem, the beautiful Christian Miriam must escape persecution for her faith, while balancing the affections of rivals Marcus the Roman and Caleb the Jew. The Graphic used illustrations by Byam Shaw in the initial serialization of PM which ran from 5 July through 27 December 1902. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, published the first book edition of PM on 2 March 1903, which was accompanied by 16 of Shaw’s full-page woodcut prints. Longmans issued 10,000 copies for this printing. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, published the first US edition on 13 March 1903 which included 26 of Shaw's illustrations.
Further Reading
Pocock, Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 119. Print.
Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F25, 39-40. Print.
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Editions of Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1701
London: The Graphic Office, 5 July 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1702
London: The Graphic Office, 12 July 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1703
London: The Graphic Office, 19 July 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1704
London: The Graphic Office, 26 July 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1705
London: The Graphic Office, 2 August 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1706
London: The Graphic Office, 9 August 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1707
London: The Graphic Office, 16 August 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1708
London: The Graphic Office, 23 August 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1709
London: The Graphic Office, 30 August 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1710
London: The Graphic Office, 6 September 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1711
London: The Graphic Office, 13 September 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1712
London: The Graphic Office, 20 September 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1713
London: The Graphic Office, 27 September 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1714
London: The Graphic Office, 4 October 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1715
London: The Graphic Office, 11 October 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1716
London: The Graphic Office, 18 October 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1717
London: The Graphic Office, 25 October 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1718
London: The Graphic Office, 1 November 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1719
London: The Graphic Office, 8 November 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1720
London: The Graphic Office, 15 November 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1721
London: The Graphic Office, 22 November 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1722
London: The Graphic Office, 29 November 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1723
London: The Graphic Office, 6 December 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1724
London: The Graphic Office, 13 December 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1725
London: The Graphic Office, 20 December 1902.
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The Graphic, vol. 66, no. 1726
London: The Graphic Office, 27 December 1902.
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903.
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921.
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Straightening herself with difficulty upon her tottering feet, Anna raised her staff and pointed with it
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I propose that you get us safely out of Cæsarea, or, if you prefer it, that we shall all die here in this grain-store, for, by whatever god you worship, Phoenician, before a hand is laid upon my mistress or me, this knife goes through your heart
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and she held the sleeping little one towards him, at whom he gazed earnestly, yes, and bent down and kissed it
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The bushes on their path were pushed aside, and from between them emerged Caleb, of whom she had seen but little of late. He halted and looked at them
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For one second they stood facing each other, very types of the Eastern and Western world...
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At the sight of him she coloured, letting the cloth fall from her hand, which remained about the neck of the marble. 'I ask your pardon, Lady Miriam,' said Marcus, bowing gravely, for breaking in thus upon your privacy, but time presses with me
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On a certain afternoon in one of the palaces of Tyre a man might have been sitting in a long portico, which overlooked the Mediterranean, whose blue waters lapped the straight-scarped rock below
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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'
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‘What land had the honour to bear the genius who wrought this work?’
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In the narrow street they caught sight of a thin, white-bearded figure, naked to the waist as though to show the hideous scars and rod-weals with which its back and breast were scored, still festering, some of them
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So exhausted was Miriam that she fell fast asleep
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The Jew who held the lantern, alarmed by the sounds within, entered hastily and, catching his foot against the body of a dead man who lay there, stumbled so that he fell upon his knee
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'Here is something else,' said the officer, drawing the roll of Marcus’s cherished letter from her breast. 'Not that, not that,' the poor girl gasped
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There in the red light of the sunset, with her hands bound, a placard setting out her shame upon her breast, and chained like a wild beast to the column of marble, Miriam was left alone
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The soldiers came on along the top of the wall till they feared to approach nearer to the fire. 'Yield!' they cried, 'Yield, fool, before you perish! Titus gives you your life'
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Now while he spoke thus somewhat at random, for he was watching her all the while, Miriam kept her eyes fixed upon his face, as though she searched there for something which she could but half recall
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No everywhere above such portions of the beleagured city as remained standing, shot up tall spires and wreaths of flame. Titus had forced the walls, and thousands upon thousands of Jews were perishing beneath the swords of his soldiers or in the fires
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O Cæsar, Titus here declared that all he has is mine. Yet when I ask him for the gift of one captive girl he refuses me. Command, I pray you, that he should keep his word'
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The wretched Jewish general, Simon, had sunk fainting to the ground
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No. 6 was the dark and splendid Jewess who had kicked the greasy-curled Eastern in the face
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She led her into a lighted passage, and thence through a door into a great and splendid room spread with rich carpets and adorned with costly furniture and marble images
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'Prince,' he cried, 'hearken ere you strike. You can kill me if you will who are justly angered, and to die at your hands is an honour that I do not merit'
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Caleb heard footsteps behind him and looked round to see Marcus advancing up the hall with a proud and martial air
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Not a hundred paces away from the carpenter’s shop where the master craftsman, Septimus, worked, was another manufactory, in which vases, basins, lamps, and all such articles were designed, moulded and baked
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Before the woman even had time to shut the door, he thrust it wide and walked straight into the room
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There in the ship 'Luna,' Marcus and Miriam, whom the Romans called Pearl-Maiden, were wedded by the bishop Cyril
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All day long Miriam sat fashioning them
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He bent down and kissed the child
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For one second they stood facing each other
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'Oh, Rachel, Rachel!' He moaned, 'Why will you haunt my sleep?'
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So they understood how... all things had worked together for good to them
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'And if I refuse these things?' asked Benoni
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'Woe, woe to Jerusalem!'
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'Good morning to you, daughter,' he said
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'I appeal from Caesar the small to Caesar the great'
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Caleb... walked straight into the room
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Anna raised her staff and pointed with it to the golden canopy
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Draw your knife and we will see which is the better, man or woman
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For the first time they met with no other eyes to watch them
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He turned and saw her
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No. 6 was the dark and splendid jewess
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Their eyes met and for one instant Marcus stopped
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'Ah!' he said— 'The rod is the Mother of Reason'
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She stared, and there was the rock
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They cast a shower of stones, one of which struck her
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She looked up to the sky, half expecting to see the angel of the lord
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'Romans always make their own road'
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She sprang forward, keeping in the shadow of the wall
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'I say that she is worthy of death'
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Suddenly he plunged headlong into the flames
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Solitudinem Faciunt Pacem Appellant
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Whereon he embraced first the marble and then me
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