Ben-hur A Tale Of The Christ

1 CHAPTER I The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length 2 CHAPTER II The man as now revealed was of admirable proportions 3 CHAPTER III To speak in the style of the period, the meeting just described took place in 4 CHAPTER IV The Egyptian and the Hindoo looked at each other 5 CHAPTER V The vivacious Greek broke forth in expressions of joy and congratulations 6 CHAPTER VI In an aperture of the western wall of Jerusalem hang the |oaken valves| called the 7 CHAPTER VII Let us take our stand by the gate, just out of the edge of the 8 CHAPTER VIII The reader is now besought to return to the court described as part of the 9 CHAPTER IX To understand thoroughly what happened to the Nazarene at the khan 10 CHAPTER X. At a certain hour in the evening the shouting and stir of the people in 11 CHAPTER XI A mile and a half, it may be two miles 12 CHAPTER XII The eleventh day after the birth of the child in the cave 13 CHAPTER XIII That evening, before sunset, some women were washing clothes on the upper step of the 14 CHAPTER XIV It was now the beginning of the third watch 15 BOOK SECOND 16 CHAPTER I It is necessary now to carry the reader forward twenty-one years 17 CHAPTER II With the foregoing explanation in mind, the reader is invited to look into one of 18 CHAPTER III From the entrance to the Holy City, equivalent to what is now called St. 19 CHAPTER IV The mother resumed her easy position against the cushion 20 CHAPTER V The young Israelite proceeded then, and rehearsed his conversation with Messala 21 CHAPTER VI The good man, like the bad, must die; but 22 CHAPTER VII Next day a detachment of legionaries went to the desolated palace 23 BOOK THIRD 24 CHAPTER I The city of Misenum gave name to the promontory which it crowned 25 CHAPTER II The tribune, standing upon the helmsman's deck with the order of the duumvir open in 26 CHAPTER III The fourth day out, and the Astroea -- so the galley was named -- speeding 27 CHAPTER IV In the Bay of Antemona, east of Cythera the island 28 CHAPTER V Every soul aboard, even the ship, awoke. 29 CHAPTER VI The throes of recovery from drowning are more painful than the drowning. 30 BOOK FOURTH 31 CHAPTER I The month to which we now come is July 32 CHAPTER II When the city came into view, the passengers were on deck 33 CHAPTER III Next day early, to the neglect of the city 34 CHAPTER IV Scarcely was Ben-Hur gone, when Simonides seemed to wake as from sleep 35 CHAPTER V When Ben-Hur sallied from the great warehouse, it was with the thought that another failure 36 CHAPTER VI Ben-Hur entered the woods with the processions. 37 CHAPTER VII In front of Ben-Hur there was a forest of cypress-trees 38 CHAPTER VIII As Ben-Hur descended the steps of the stand, an Arab arose upon the last one 39 CHAPTER IX As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to 40 CHAPTER X Beyond the village the country was undulating and cultivated 41 CHAPTER XI What time the lower horn of a new moon touched the castellated piles on Mount 42 CHAPTER XII The palace across the river nearly opposite Simonides' place is said to have been completed 43 CHAPTER XIII Sheik Ilderim was a man of too much importance to go about with a small 44 CHAPTER XIV If the reader will return now to the repast of the wise men at their 45 CHAPTER XV The shadows cast over the Orchard of Palms by the mountains at set of sun 46 CHAPTER XVI |If I could answer you,| Balthasar said, in his simple 47 CHAPTER XVII Up a little way from the dower there was a cluster of palms 48 BOOK FIFTH 49 CHAPTER I The morning after the bacchanalia in the saloon of the palace 50 CHAPTER II About the time the couriers departed from Messala's door with the despatches it being yet 51 CHAPTER III |Iras, the daughter of Balthasar, sends me with salutation and a message 52 CHAPTER IV Ilderim returned to the dowar next day about the third hour. 53 CHAPTER V The sheik waited, well satisfied, until Ben-Hur drew his horses off the field for the 54 CHAPTER VI The intercepted letter was conclusive upon a number of points of great interest to Ben-Hur. 55 CHAPTER VII Malluch stopped at the door; Ben-Hur entered alone. 56 CHAPTER VIII Simonides looked up, none the less a master. 57 CHAPTER IX Next night, about the fourth hour, Ben-Hur stood on the terrace of the great warehouse 58 CHAPTER X The day before the games, in the afternoon, all Ilderim's racing property was taken to 59 CHAPTER XI Evening was hardly come upon Antioch, when the Omphalus 60 CHAPTER XII The Circus at Antioch stood on the south bank of the river 61 CHAPTER XIII About three o'clock, speaking in modern style, the program was concluded except the chariot-race. 62 CHAPTER XIV When the dash for position began, Ben-Hur, as we have seen 63 CHAPTER XV Ben-Hur tarried across the river with Ilderim; for at midnight 64 CHAPTER XVI Going next day to fill his appointment with Iras 65 BOOK SIXTH 66 CHAPTER I Our story moves forward now thirty days from the night Ben-Hur left Antioch to go 67 CHAPTER II |A woman of Israel, entombed here with her daughter. 68 CHAPTER III About the hour Gesius, the keeper, made his appearance before the tribune in the Tower 69 CHAPTER IV It was dark when, parting with the drover inside the gate 70 CHAPTER V Nowadays travellers in the Holy Land looking for the famous place with the beautiful name 71 CHAPTER VI The morning of the first day of the seventh month -- Tishri in the Hebrew 72 BOOK SEVENTH 73 CHAPTER I The meeting took place in the khan of Bethany as appointed. 74 CHAPTER II It was Ben-Hur's purpose to turn aside at the break of day 75 CHAPTER III The tent was cosily pitched beneath a tree where the gurgle of the stream was 76 CHAPTER IV The caravan, stretched out upon the Desert, was very picturesque 77 CHAPTER V The third day of the journey the party nooned by the river Jabbok 78 BOOK EIGHTH 79 CHAPTER I |Esther -- Esther! Speak to the servant below that he may bring me a cup 80 CHAPTER II An hour or thereabouts after the scene upon the roof 81 CHAPTER III The first person to go out of the city upon the opening of the Sheep's 82 CHAPTER IV During the third hour the road in front of the resting-place of the lepers became 83 CHAPTER V Ben-Hur pitched two tents out on the Upper Cedron east a short space of the 84 CHAPTER VI Ben-Hur alighted at the gate of the khan from which the three Wise Men more 85 CHAPTER VII When Ben-Hur left the guest-chamber, there was not nearly so much life in his action 86 CHAPTER VIII The streets were full of people going and coming 87 CHAPTER IX Next morning, about the second hour, two men rode full speed to the doors of 88 CHAPTER X When the party -- Balthasar, Simonides, Ben-Hur, Esther, and the two faithful Galileans -- reached