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And taking the body of Antony, Cæsar permitting, I and Atoua caused it to be most skilfully embalmed after our Egyptian fashion, covering the face with a mask of gold fashioned like to the features of Antony. Also I wrote upon his breast his name and titles, and painted his name and the name of his father within his inner coffin, and drew the form of the Holy Nout folding her wings about him.
So 'tis nout to me, except in the way o' friendliness, what the family may think o' me; only the George and they has always been kind and friendly, and I don't want to break the old custom."
The cover was off, but the painted coffin of the Pharaoh lay in the depths of the sarcophagus. We climbed the Sphinx, then I blew the dust from the coffin with my breath and read that which was written on its lid. And this was written: "Pharaoh Menkau-ra, the Child of Heaven. "Pharaoh Menkau-ra, Royal Son of the Sun. "Pharaoh Menkau-ra, who didst lie beneath the heart of Nout.
'What can you mean, sir? I exclaimed, rising in indignant bewilderment. 'I mean, Maud, if ye'll marry me, you'll never ha' cause to complain; I'll never let ye want for nout, nor gi'e ye a wry word. 'Actually a proposal! I ejaculated, like a person speaking in a dream. I stood with my hand on the back of a chair, staring at Dudley; and looking, I dare say, as stupefied as I felt.
"She never gave me nout, not the vally o' a brass thimble, all the time I was there; but she was good-humoured, and always laughin', and she talked no end o' proas over her tea; and, seeing me sa sackless and dowly, she roused me up wi' her laughin' and stories; and I think I liked her better than my aunt children is so taken wi' a bit o' fun or a story though my aunt was very good to me, but a hard woman about some things, and silent always.
"Look'ee, sir, do'ee see that theer clock?" and he would point with a bony, tremulous finger "stopped it were got sum'mat wrong wi' its inn'ards wouldn't stir a finger dead it were! But that bye Jarge 'e see it 'e did give it a look over 'e did, an' wi' nout but 'is two 'ands set it a-goin' good as ever: You, Silas Madden, you remember as 'e done it wi' 'is two 'ands?" "'Is two 'ands!"
Come Ptolemy, poisoned of thy sister Cleopatra; come Arsinoë, murdered in the sanctuary by thy sister Cleopatra; come Sepa, tortured to death of Cleopatra; come Divine Menkau-ra, whose body Cleopatra tore and whose curse she braved for greed; come one, come all who have died at the hands of Cleopatra! Rush from the breast of Nout and greet her who murdered you!
"Nay, it is the mother goddess Nout brooding upon the world," answered another. And though they only spoke softly, in that awful silence their voices reached Tua on the throne, and for the first time her face changed, for on it came a cold, curious smile. Kaku began to whisper into Abi's ear, and there was fear in the eyes of both of them.
As she finished speaking, she looked so faint and weary that Margaret became alarmed. 'It's nout, said Bessy. 'It's not death yet. I had a fearfu' night wi' dreams or somewhat like dreams, for I were wide awake and I'm all in a swounding daze to-day, only yon poor chap made me alive again. No! it's not death yet, but death is not far off. Ay!
Dudley could lick him to pot if he crossed him, and he and fayther 'ud think nout o' havin' him afore the justices for poachin', and swearin' him into gaol. 'But why does he think it's about me? 'Hish! said Meg, who fancied she heard a sound, but all was quiet. 'I can't say we're in danger, lass. I don't know why but he does, an' so do I, an', for that matter, so do ye.
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