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Excerpt from Lapsed, but Not Lost: A Story of Roman Carthage
No sound of vesper bells came to her; the Christian Church, which was noiselessly pursuing her path of conquest, and even venturing in some places to greet the eye with sacred buildings of some stateliness, did not venture to appeal to the ear, and had not, indeed, yet found her own voice, in the music of church bells. And the call of the Arabian prophet to prayer was not yet to be heard for four centuries. The level of secular sound was pierced by no call to prayer, and the level of the city roofs was broken by no aspiring spire or minaret. The cry of the sailors weighing anchor, the song of the day labourer returning from his work, the chant of the solitary boatman as he rounded the point on which she sate, the far-off hum of the busy swarms of Carthage, were all the sounds that reached her. The hum was louder than usual, and there was anxiety in the watching eyes. It had been a great festival-day at Carthage and throughout the empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
