(_Looking into a corner_.) But unclean. Have they
no besoms?... Ah! (_Looking up at the roof_.) The bigness of it makes me
small like a child before it can walk. I could not live comfortably in
such a great windy place. No! I prefer our own house to all this
royalty.
JUDITH. Give me food, Haggith. Where hast thou been? (_She sits_.)
HAGGITH. Mistress, I have been with the man Ingur! (_Arranging_ Judith's
_costume, and then setting out the food and wine_.) In obedience to your
command. At Bethulia, being busied all my days with the ordering of your
possessions, I had no time for traffic with men; neither desire. And I
deemed them terrible and masterful creatures. And when you commanded me
to go forth into the camps and delude and entangle with wiles whatever
Assyrian I should meet, I was afraid. For it was in my heart that I
could not accomplish this thing. Yet I have done it prettily. And it is
easier to me far than sweeping with a besom. Either all men are
simpletons and besotted with self-conceit, or Ingur exceeds greatly in
folly. I have been given to him for his slave, but he is mine and knows
it not. (_She sits_.
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