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Meanwhile huge stones mounted over the walls and fell within the city three great towers planted beyond the walls, out of range of the Jewish engines and equipped with superior machines, were steadily devastating the entire quarter near which they were erected.
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There she saw combats, terrible scenes of frenzy, deaths and unnamable horrors starvelings gnawing their nails shadows of infants pressed to hollow bosoms old men too weak to walk that went on hands and knees young men and young women in rags that failed to cover them, and wandering skeletons screaming, "Woe!" Below she saw the remote constricted passages between rows of desolate houses, moving with people, sounding with clamor. There she saw the flash of swords, swung afar off, spears brandished and the running hither and thither of defenders on the wall. She saw the ascending streets of Zion and the tall fortifications mounting the heights within the city's limits. But she saw enough to make her cold and to turn her shivering and panic-stricken into the darkness of the crypt below. The entrance to their refuge was about the middle of the ruin and therefore a great many paces back from the streets, so that she did not see Jerusalem's agonies face to face. I know."Īfter a while Laodice looked about her. "It is nothing," the woman said, with a dreary patience.
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The uproar on Jerusalem after the muffled silence of the underground cavern filled her with terror, and she pressed close to the shelter of the entrance until the woman at her side reassured her.
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Only little by little was she able to permit the full blaze of the Judean sun to reach them. Up in the chaos of fallen columns, she stood a moment with her hands pressed over her eyes. And as she walked she heard the footsteps of the two men behind her. Laodice took one of the older women and timidly climbing the steps from which the rubbish had been pushed away by the climbing hundreds, went through the dusk of the passage that terminated in a brilliancy that dazzled her. "Let us have no sickness in this place," he said bluntly and turned on his heel and left them to obey.
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When he commanded Laodice to go up into the sunlight, he approached the corner in which the two useless men hid and bade them, too, to go up into the air. These, then, were those Christians whom he had taken into his protection because of the Name which had inspired a shepherd boy to save his life. Laodice saw that they were physically unfit that one was very old and the other very feeble and her heart warmed again to that stern master who saw them fed as abundantly as his most valued men. While weapons and armor were made and tramping ranks formed and broke before the commands of the lithe dark commander of that fortress and subdued but fierce councils took place around torches - while all this went on, they kept back, even apart from the women, and said nothing. There were, besides the women, two men who took no part in the preparation for war which went on about them in the cavern day and night. And because of her fear that Philadelphus might be searching for her, she stayed in the sunless crypt day by day until the Maccabee, noting with affectionate distress that she was growing white and weak, bade her take one of the women and venture up to the light. She lived among them a dusky shadow among shadows. The City of Delight - Elizabeth MillerThe twilight of the cavern rarely revealed enough of the features of her fellows to Laodice for her to identify them or for them to identify her.