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Excerpt from Behold the Woman!: A Tale of Redemption
In the convivial atmosphere of reeking inns, where they played dice, pelted one another with oyster shells, and clanked brasses for drab dancing girls, the demarcations of race and nationality were obliterated, and, if unable intelligibly to converse, they could still roar out their doggerel drinking songs, which merged into swinging bacchic choruses not with out a fantastic and hilarious - if uncertain - melody of their own. Wandering to their ships or lodgings, their voices trailed into the echoing distances, and silence fell upon the spacious thoroughfares - silence, save when ?eet-footed black slaves bore homeward some loudly snoring lord in a curtained palanquin, or when - faint and fugitive, from some crouching haunt in the deeper shadows - there rose the intermittent melancholy intonation of sleepless monks at prayer.
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