When conducted to their respective rooms, they were given to understand
that, at a certain signal, they were all to assemble below, where
Ashpenaz would meet them, address them, and enlighten them in regard to
the duties of their future course.
The four Hebrews were quietly seated in one of their apartments, each one
engaged in satisfying his curiosity by gazing at the richly carved
casings and highly ornamented articles of furniture.
"Well, cousins," said Daniel, with a smile, "I trust they will not
un-Hebrew us with their Chaldean mysteries."
"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem!" said Azariah, with feeling, "let my
right hand forget her cunning."
"Let my tongue be palsied if I forget, for a day, the loved ones at
home," said Hananiah.
"When the sweet memories of our beloved Prophet shall be obliterated from
this bosom," said Mishael, laying his hand upon his breast, "then let me
be utterly forsaken."
"The law of Jehovah shall be the rule of our actions," said Daniel; "to
him we yield our hearty and willing obedience.
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