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She held the metal mirror so as to conceal her face from the captain of the watch, put the little flask to her lips and emptied it at one mouthful. The mirror fell from her hand, she staggered, a deadly convulsion seized her the officer rushed forward, and while she fixed her dying look upon him she said: "My game is lost, but Ameni tell Ameni that he will not win either."
Ameni returned to his room. He walked restlessly to and fro. On a little table lay a mirror; he looked into the clear metal pane, and laid it back in its place again, as if he had seen some strange and displeasing countenance. The events of the last few hours had moved him deeply, and shaken his confidence in his unerring judgment of men and things.
To their infinite astonishment Ameni spoke kindly to the thoughtless boys, praised the motive of their action their attachment to a highly- endowed teacher but then clearly and deliberately laid before them the folly of the means they had employed to attain their end, and at what a cost.
"But it will be truth," cried Katuti, "as soon as the Gods allow you to be as you are the real king of this country." "Strange!" said Ani smiling, Ameni, "this very day, used almost exactly the same words. The wisdom of priests, and that of women, have much in common, and they fight with the same weapons.
"Make way for the daughter of Rameses, who sought and has found purification from the Gods, who behold the guilt of the highest as of the lowest among you. They reward the pious, but they punish the offender. Kneel down and let us pray that they may forgive you, and bless both you and your children." Ameni took the holy Sistrum Many specimens are extant in Museums.
The great masts of cedar, which Paaker sent from Lebanon to Thebes to bear our banners, and ornament our gateway, were thrown to the ground at sunrise by the frightful wind." "Thus shall your son's defiant spirit be broken," said Ameni; "But for you, if you have patience, new joys shall arise." "I thank thee again," said Setchem. But something yet remains to be said.
"And in spite of them thou art clean in the sight of Ra!" exclaimed the boy who accompanied her, her brother of seventeen, who was brought up at the House of Seti, which however he was to leave in a few weeks and he kissed her. "I shall complain to Ameni of this wild boy," said Bent-Anat smiling. "He would positively accompany me.
"But Ameni," said Chamus, bowing respectfully to his father, "seems to have stirred up his ambition, and to support him with his advice. The chief of the House of Seti is a man of great ability, and at least half of the priesthood are his adherents." "I know it," replied the king. "Their lordships owe me a grudge because I have called their serfs to arms, and they want them to till their acres.
Each feels himself made of better stuff than his companions in destiny, constitutes his own law, and fears to see the great expended in trifles; but I think otherwise; like a brook of ferruginous water from Lebanon, I mix with the great stream, and tinge it with my color." Thinking thus Ameni stood still.
"My gifts are modest," he said, "but I will endeavor to sing of the glorious deed, in the presence of the hero who achieved it, with the aid of the Gods." Rameses gave a signal, and Ameni caused a large golden harp to be brought in for his disciple.
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