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There was Bohemond's niece and the Ibelin girl who had crept out of any castle her parents had ever tried to lock her into, and the grandniece of the King of Cyprus, who loved wine. You Arabs, he said, pointing to Jemail~ cameinto the act very late. His three wives were accommodating themselves to Israel, and the pregnant one was even going by herself to the Kupat Holim doc- tor to discover how to have a baby in a modem way. ked, Who would leave this warm place for cold castle in Gretz? He indicated the-good food that L

weekly ritual that had kept the Jews together through dispersions that would have destroyed a lesser people. It began when a Jewish woman from Damascus wanted a divorce from a man who had lived briefly in Safed and whose family antecedents were uncertain. Next the mangonels were cranked up and their lethal arrows placed against the strings, and when the machine let go, the arrows winged with s mp, and it was not like the sweet dark waters he had known; it was alien, and for a fragment of a second he enter-