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May l remind Your Majesty that
you cannot put your personal feelings
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above the Pharaoh
and the good of your country?
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Don"t lecture me, Baltor.
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Your Majesty once told me that you could
not afford the luxury of being a woman,
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that always you were forced
to remember that you are a queen,
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and that your only love,
your only thought, must be your duty.
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Your Majesty came to Jerusalem
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in search of a means to destroy
an enemy whom you once hated!
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Yes, Baltor.
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l have been trying to evade reality.
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l have found myself trying to forget
the purpose for which l came,
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as one would try to forget an evil dream.
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l have been reluctant
to make an end of him.
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The most merciful way to kill is to thrust
quickly and strongly with a knife.
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lt seems to me that we are no nearer a kill
than we were before we came.
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You are wrong, Baltor. l have known
for days how to destroy Solomon.
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Suppose l get his permission to hold the
rites of Rha-Gon upon the soil of lsrael,
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to set up a pagan god
in the face of the great Jehovah,
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the one god who commands the lsraelites
to have no other god before him?
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That would cause more
than angry murmurings against him.
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The priests and the people
would rise up against Solomon.
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Yes, Baltor.
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His own people
would accomplish his end.
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Are you satisfied now
that l am still the Queen of Sheba?
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Majesty.