however, that it is my child, since I drew it out of the water. I
have given him his name, and he shall be called Moses. And I will
have him educated so that he becomes a man after our mind. Go in
peace, and find me a nurse!"

Pharaoh's daughter went with her child up to the palace, and Miriam
looked for her mother among the reeds, where she had waited and
heard what Pharaoh's daughter had said and resolved.

"Mother, Pharaoh's daughter will bring up Amram and Jochebed's son.
Ham's children will serve Shem's. Praised be the Lord, the God of
Shem! Now you believe in the promise, mother!"

"Now I believe, and God be praised for His great mercy!"




THE HEMICYCLE OF ATHENS


After a hot day the sun began to sink, and the market-place lay
already in shadow. The shadow rose and climbed up the Acropolis, on
which the shield of Pallas still gleamed as the aegis of the city.

Before the vari-coloured colonnade stood a group of men who had
assembled before the semi-circular marble seat called the
Hemicyklion; they appeared to be awaiting someone's arrival before
they sat down. Among them were stately and handsome men, but there
was also an extraordinarily ugly one, round whom, however, the