Then the king returned out of the palace garden, where he had gone to recover from the first burst of anger, into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. In his importunate pleading for his life he had kneeled down before Esther and had then fallen forward with the upper part of his body on the sofa on which Esther reclined at the meal. Then said the king, now altogether beside himself with anger, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? The king took this act of Haman's to be an outrage on the modesty of the queen and a serious offense against the respect due to himself. As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face, it being the custom to veil the face of a condemned criminal as no longer worthy of looking at the king.

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