The shots across the valley stopped as the shooting party changed their ground for the last beat . ` So it was I , not Elias , ' he went on quietly , ` that made terms with Langton touching the fortieth of the New Laws . ' ` What terms ? ' said Puck quickly . ` The Fortieth of the Great Charter says : `` To none will we sell , refuse , or delay right or justice . '' ' ` True , but the Barons had written first : To no free man . It cost me two hundred broad pieces of gold to change those narrow words . Langton , the priest , understood . `` Jew though thou art , '' said he , `` the change is just , and if ever Christian and Jew came to be equal in England thy people may thank thee . '' Then he went out stealthily , as men do who deal with Israel by night . I think he spent my gift upon his altar . Why not ? I have spoken with Langton . He was such a man as I might have been if -- if we Jews had been a people . But yet , in many things , a child . ' I heard Elias and Adah abovestairs quarrel , and , knowing the woman was the stronger , I saw that Elias would tell the King of the gold and that the King would continue in his stubbornness . Therefore I saw that the gold must be put away from the reach of any man . Of a sudden , the Word of the Lord came to me saying , `` The Morning is come , O thou that dwellest in the land . '' ' Kadmiel halted , all black against the pale green sky beyond the wood -- a huge robed figure , like the Moses in the picture-Bible . ' I rose .
I went out , and as I shut the door on that House of Foolishness , the woman looked from the window and whispered , `` I have prevailed on my husband to tell the XXXXX ! ''
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