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Herop's spires sought them even in Egypt. Had anyone seen a baldheaded carpenter with a small golden beard turning silver and his blue-eyed dark-tressed wife, little more than a child herself, with an indescribably lovely infant whose smile was like the warm light of the sun? More than once these spies came uncomfortably near, when their trail led them past the stone obelisks set up by Cleopatra in the gilded city of Heliopolis; there the Nazareth family had settled. Some day those obelisks would be set up in Paris and London and New York and Constantinople and other great cities then not even thought of, for unborn eyes to see stone monuments that Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus had also seen.
The family learned, too, that there was an intense and senseless dislike of their people in the land. Joseph and Mary learned about anti-Semitism in Egypt.