. Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew;. Iheard the voice: Tarry thou till i come ! The worlddisappeared from before me! Here I pause. I had undergone that portion of my unhap-py career which was to be passed among my people. My lifeas father, husband, and citizen was at an end. Thenceforth Iwas to be a solitary being. My fate had yet scarcely fallen upon me, but I was now tofeel it in the disruption of every gentler tie that held me tolife. I was to make my couch with the savage, the outcast,and the slave. I was to see the ruin of the mighty and theoverthrow of empires. Ye
. Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew;. Iheard the voice: Tarry thou till i come ! The worlddisappeared from before me! Here I pause. I had undergone that portion of my unhap-py career which was to be passed among my people. My lifeas father, husband, and citizen was at an end. Thenceforth Iwas to be a solitary being. My fate had yet scarcely fallen upon me, but I was now tofeel it in the disruption of every gentler tie that held me tolife. I was to make my couch with the savage, the outcast,and the slave. I was to see the ruin of the mighty and theoverthrow of empires. Yet in the tumult that changed theiface of the world, I was still to live and be sterner passion that disturbs our nature was to reign insuccessive tyranny over my soul. And fearfully was the de-cree fulfilled. In revenge for the fall of Jerusalem, T traversed the globeto seek out an enemy of Rome. I found in the northernsnows a man of blood; I stirred up the soul of Alaric and ledhim to the rock of Rome. In revenge for the insults heaped 632. L Copyright, 1901, by Funk & Wagnajls Company, N. Y. and London. I heard the shouts of the conquerors, and the fall of the pillars See page 532. ^be Destruction ot Jerusalem on the Jew by the dotards and dastards of the city of Con- saiatUeistantine, I sought out an instrument of compendious ruin: I ^TOimiwetfound him in the Arabian sands, and poured ambition into theso\il of the enthusiast of Mecca. In revenge for the pollu-tion of the ruins of the Temple, I roused the iron tribes ofthe West, and at the head of the crusaders expelled the Sara-cens. I fed full on the revenge, and I felt the misery of re-venge ! A passion for the mysteries of nature seized me. I toiledwith the alchemist; I wore away years in perplexities of theschoolmen; and I felt the guilt and emptiness of unlawfulknowledge. A passion for human fame seized me. I drew my sword inthe Italian wars—triumphed—was a monarch—and learnedto curse the hour when
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