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The first day's journey, from Gaza to Ascalon, was intolerably tedious, for the deep-rutted highway was crowded with creeping caravans and filthy with dust.
'It will be better to-morrow promised Melas, amused by the grotesque appearance of Demetrius who had rewound his turban about his face until only his eyes were visible.