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Judith, a play in three acts - Founded on the Apocryphal Book of Judith by Arnold Bennett
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HOLOFERNES (_disturbed_). It is a true word.

BAGOAS. It is a true word.

HOLOFERNES (_savagely_). This day will I attack the city and take it,
and though I make fifty thousand widows and orphans in Assyria I will
compass Bethulia, and not one house in it shall be left standing, nor
one Israelite alive.

JUDITH (_shaking her head slowly_). Why is my lord against the pleasure
of the Most High? Do I not say, and has it not been revealed to me, that
Bethulia shall not perish until its inhabitants have sinned before God?
Listen, illustrious Prince, I will remain this night. And when the time
comes I will go into the valley, and I will pray to God, and mayhap He
will tell me when the Israelites in Bethulia have committed their sin.
And I will come and show it to you, and thereupon my lord and governor
shall go forth with all his army, and none shall resist him.

HOLOFERNES (_fascinated_). Thou wilt come to me when the time is at hand
for my triumph!

JUDITH. And hearken further! I will lead my lord and governor in the
midst of Judea, until he comes to Jerusalem; and I will set his throne
in the midst of Jerusalem, and a dog shall not so much as open his mouth
at my lord and prince. For these things were declared unto me from on
high, and I am sent to tell them.

HOLOFERNES (_aside to_ Bagoas, _excitedly_). There is not such a woman
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