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She availed herself of the circumstance that she, as well as he, was descended from the old royal house to pique his ambition, and to open to him a view, which even to think of, he would have considered forbidden as a crime, before he became intimate with her. Ani's suit for the hand of the princess Bent-Anat was Katuti's work.
A voice from the crowd exclaimed: "Make way for my white robe, and leave the preacher Pentaur alone, he is my friend. You most of you know me." "You are Nebsecht the leech, who set my broken leg," cried a sailor. "And cured my bad eye," said a weaver. "That tall handsome man is Pentaur, I know him well," cried the girl, whose opinion had been overheard by Bent-Anat.
Leave her alone; she is under the particular protection of the princess Bent-Anat, who ran over her not long ago." "I will take her into my house," said Hekt, "and will take care of her. Her grandmother is lying there; she was half choked by the flames, but she will soon come to herself and I have room for both." "Till to-morrow," replied the surgeon. "Then I will provide another shelter for her."
I am going to the rooms of Bent-Anat; Katuti, who can go in and out as she pleases, will set fire to the stairs, which lead to the upper story, and which fall by touching a spring; and Paaker to the king's apartments." "Good-good, it may succeed," gasped the old woman. "But what was the scream in your tent?"
"Have you spoken to Bent-Anat?" asked Katuti. "And heard again from her own lips the refusal she had sent me through you. You see my spirit has suffered!" That I should have to confess it! When I think of her, our plots seem to me unutterably pitiful.
And I ask no further reward than to see my father's house once more in the enjoyment of its rights." "Perhaps we shall achieve it," said Ani; "but in a short time if if Reflect, Katuti; try to find out, ask your daughter to help you to the utmost. Who is it that she you know whom I mean Who is it that Bent-Anat loves?"
I am no page of honor to Bent-Anat; I am her brother, and king Rameses' own son. Do not cover your face with your hands, Uarda, for if I had not seen your mother's jewel, and if I were not only a prince, but Horus himself, the son of Isis, I must have loved you, and would not have given you up.
Bent-Anat now hoped for the support of her father, for her brother Rameri, if no accident had occurred to him, might arrive any day. But in vain. The position of the ladies was particularly unpleasant, for they felt that they had been caught in a trap, and were in fact prisoners.
His children were once more around him, Mena was his cupbearer as in former times, and all that was best and noblest in the land was gathered round him to rejoice with him in his triumph and his return. Opposite to him sat the ladies, and exactly in front of him, a delight to his eyes, Bent-Anat and Nefert.
Ani smiled too, thanked her, and left her; but Katuti said to herself: "Bent-Anat may burn with the rest: I have no intention of sharing my power with her!" Crowds of men and women from all parts had thronged to Pelusium, to welcome the conqueror and his victorious army on the frontier.