The countenance of this lady gave evidence that
it had once been the throne of rare beauty.
"Why looketh my brother so thoughtful and sad on this day of general
rejoicing in Judah?" asked the aged lady, directing her address to one of
those who had alighted from the first chariot.
"I am not sad, sister," replied the brother, "but am thoughtful. And what
thinkest thou my mind dwelt upon?"
"Surely, I cannot tell. Some past scenes in Chaldea, peradventure."
"Nay, sister. But I was thinking that seventy and two years ago this very
night, myself and my two brothers here, accompanied by our beloved
Jeremiah, entered this house, and revealed the sad story of our captivity
to our beloved Perreeza."
"Ah, dear Hananiah! and a dark night of sorrow that proved to your almost
brokenhearted sister."
"But I trust that Jehovah hath overruled the whole in the end to the
glory of his great name," said Mishael.
"Surely he hath!" quickly answered Mathias. "Forever blessed be the
memory of that delightful night when these eyes, at the house of
Barzello, rested on the bright charms of the 'Rose of Sharon.
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