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The high-priest cast such a look of astonishment and enquiry on her, that the king saw she must be in some way connected with him, and therefore, taking no notice of the trembling girl who lay at his feet, he asked: "Do you know this woman?" "Yes, my King. I obtained for her the situation of upper attendant to the may Auramazda forgive her! King of Egypt's daughter."
"What is it, my mother?" he asked, gently. "Timokles," she answered softly, "I was thinking but now of Alexandria and of our dear home there. Timokles, if God had not driven me into the desert, would I ever have found him?" Timokles trembled with exceeding joy. Could she be speaking of the real God, not of Egypt's idols? "Hast thou found Him the Christian's God my mother?" he asked tremulously.
Michael knew that such things were possible in Egypt, where tales as wonderful as any in A Thousand and One Nights are still being enacted. Egypt's buried treasures are infinite. In that land of amazing discoveries there has been nothing more amazing than the means of their discovery.
Margaret was totally ignorant of the fact that the tombs which give the valley its modern name lay in all their desolate splendour in the bowels of the earth, under the cliffs on either side of her. Her sense of the valley was not mental, it was not derived from books or a knowledge of Egypt's history. Why it so affected her she could not imagine. It did not depress her so much as it awed her.
Is there not enough of Egypt's women who are willingly loose that he must destroy the purest spirit on earth? He shall not have her, if I take his life to save her!" After a moment's savage rumination, he broke out again. "He has us on the hip! We shall be put to it to hide her away from him now. Do thou go to her nay, I will go."
There may be no Helen such as she who lived at Troy, and no Cleopatra such as Egypt's dusky queen, but there are grand women living yet, worthy of heroes' love." "I am sure of it," he said, "now that I have seen you." But she made no reply; she did not even appear to have heard his words. "I can understand you," she said, gently.
"I see." "Al-lah!" he murmured, saying the word like an Eastern man. He looked into her eyes. "The first word you hear in the night from Egypt, Ruby, Egypt's night greeting to you. I have heard that song up the river in Nubia often, but oh, it's so different now!" During her long experience in a life that had been complex and full of changes, Mrs.
When her flame lacked oil Too proud was Egypt's queen to be The snuff of Roman spirits; so she said, "Good-night," and closed the book of life half read And little understood; perchance misread The greater part, yet, who shall say? Are we An ermined bench to call her culprit failings up And make them plead for mercy?
"I am no more worthy of freedom than my people," she replied with dignity. "Thy people! They should be lawgivers and advisers among Egypt's high places, rather than brick-makers and quarry-slaves, if thou art a typical Israelite." "Aye!" she exclaimed, "and thou hast given tongue to the same estimate of Israel, which hath wrought consternation among the powers of Mizraim.
Hence the presence of Kaiser Heinrich was never hailed as Egypt's plague by the peasantry, but welcome as the May month wherever he went. Father Gregory and Farina found themselves in the centre of a group ere they drew rein, and a cry rose, 'The good father shall decide, and all's fair, followed by, 'Agreed! Hail and tempest! he's dropped down o' purpose. 'Father, said one, 'here it is!
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