Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of The Fall of Jerusalem

Pearl-Maiden - A Tale of The Fall of Jerusalem by H. Rider Haggard.

This is the story of Miriam, an orphan Christian woman living in Rome in the first century.

It was but two hours after midnight, yet many were wakeful in Cæsarea on the Syrian coast. Herod Agrippa, King of all Palestine-by grace of the Romans-now at the very apex of his power, celebrated a festival in honour of the Emperor Claudius, to which had flocked all the mightiest in the land and tens of thousands of the people. ...