Pearl-Maiden

A Tale Of The Fall of Jerusalem

by H. Rider Haggard

First Published 1901.

Contents

[CHAPTER I. THE PRISON AT CÆSAREA]
[CHAPTER II. THE VOICE OF A GOD]
[CHAPTER III. THE GRAIN STORE]
[CHAPTER IV. THE BIRTH OF MIRIAM]
[CHAPTER V. MIRIAM IS ENTHRONED]
[CHAPTER VI. CALEB]
[CHAPTER VII. MARCUS]
[CHAPTER VIII. MARCUS AND CALEB]
[CHAPTER IX. THE JUSTICE OF FLORUS]
[CHAPTER X. BENONI]
[CHAPTER XI. THE ESSENES LOSE THEIR QUEEN]
[CHAPTER XII. THE RING, THE NECKLACE AND THE LETTER]
[CHAPTER XIII. WOE, WOE TO JERUSALEM]
[CHAPTER XIV. THE ESSENES FIND THEIR QUEEN AGAIN]
[CHAPTER XV. WHAT PASSED IN THE TOWER]
[CHAPTER XVI. THE SANHEDRIM]
[CHAPTER XVII. THE GATE OF NICANOR]
[CHAPTER XVIII. THE DEATH-STRUGGLE OF ISRAEL]
[CHAPTER XIX. PEARL-MAIDEN]
[CHAPTER XX. THE MERCHANT DEMETRIUS]
[CHAPTER XXI. THE CÆSARS AND PRINCE DOMITIAN]
[CHAPTER XXII. THE TRIUMPH]
[CHAPTER XXIII. THE SLAVE-RING]
[CHAPTER XXIV. MASTER AND SLAVE]
[CHAPTER XXV. THE REWARD OF SATURIUS]
[CHAPTER XXVI. THE JUDGMENT OF DOMITIAN]
[CHAPTER XXVII. THE BISHOP CYRIL]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. THE LAMP]
[CHAPTER XXIX. HOW MARCUS CHANGED HIS FAITH]

TO GLADYS CHRISTIAN A DWELLER IN THE EAST
THIS EASTERN TALE IS DEDICATED
BY HER OWN AND
HER FATHER’S FRIEND
THE AUTHOR
Ditchingham: September 14, 1902.

PEARL-MAIDEN

CHAPTER I
THE PRISON AT CÆSAREA