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Bent-Anat waved her hand proudly, as if to confirm the widow's statement; but Nefert went up to her mother, threw her arms round her neck, and wept upon her shoulder. Tears glistened even in the princess's eyes when Katuti at last led her daughter towards her, and pressed yet one more kiss on her forehead.
He has borrowed sums of money from most of the rich men in the country, and that is well, for so many creditors are so many allies. The Regent is a bad debtor; but the king Ani, they reckon, will be a grateful payer." Katuti looked at the dwarf in astonishment. "You know men!" she said. "To my sorrow!" replied Nemu.
Ani shook his head and replied: "That would put me in a difficult position; for it I were to punish those who are now faithful to their king, and exalt the others, I should have to govern with unfaithful servants, and turn away the faithful ones. You need not color, my kind friend, for we are kin, and my concerns are yours." Katuti took the hand he offered her and said: "It is so.
"Hail to Ani, the son of the Sun!" cried the dwarf kissing the Regent's foot. "Have I no letter to carry to my mistress Nefert?" "Greet her from me," replied the Regent. "Tell Katuti I will visit her after the next meal. The king's charioteer has not written, yet I hear that he is well. Go now, and be silent and discreet."
The ministers of the Gods, the priests, are favorably disposed to us; we have " At this moment there was a commotion in the garden, and a breathless slave rushed in exclaiming "The Regent is at the gate!" Paaker stood in stupid perplexity, but he collected himself with an effort and would have gone, but Katuti detained him. "I will go forward to meet Ani," she said.
"You want me?" she said; and after kissing her mother she sank upon her couch. "I am tired," she exclaimed, "Nemu, take a fan and keep the flies off me." The dwarf sat down on a cushion by her couch, and began to wave the semi- circular fan of ostrich-feathers; but Katuti put him aside and said: "You can leave us for the present; we want to speak to each other in private."
You gave the first impulse to all that is plotting here, and I will confess to you that, regardless of all consequences, I should in a few hours have given up my pretensions to the throne, if that woman Bent-Anat had said 'yes' instead of 'no." "You make me believe," said Katuti, "that the weaker sex are gifted with stronger wills than the nobler.
The Regent Ani, accompanied by Katuti, was going through the whole of these slightly built structures. "It seems to me all quite complete," said the widow. "Only one thing I cannot make up my mind about," replied Ani, "whether most to admire your inventive genius or your exquisite taste." "Oh! let that pass," said Katuti smiling. "If any thing deserves your praise it is my anxiety to serve you.
Dost thou know none such in the House of Seti?" asked the widow. "Oh yes!" cried Rameri with eager certainty. "And he is ?" asked Katuti. "Pentaur, the poet," exclaimed the youth. Bent-Anat's face glowed with scarlet color, while her, brother went on to explain. "He is noble and of a lofty soul, and all the Gods dwell in him when he speaks.
As soon as thou hast appealed to him, and he has assisted thee, all thy confidence and freedom will be gone, and the more difficult he finds it to raise so large a sum of money at once, the angrier he will be to think that thou art making use of him. Thou knowest his circumstances." "He is in debt," said Katuti. "I know that."
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