Pearl-Maiden - Henry Rider Haggard - Bog

Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem is a novel by H Rider Haggard A servant woman cares for an orphan girl named Miriam, the daughter of a Christian woman, living her Jewish grandfather in Rome in the first century. She grows up an is educated sculptress. Miriam falls in love with a Roman officer, but she is unprepared for the duelling passions of religion and love.