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H. Brugsch's Hieroglyphische Grammatik. wrote the paper for the paraschites, in which he confessed to having impelled him to the theft of a heart, and in the most binding manner declared himself willing to take the old man's guilt upon himself before Osiris and the judges of the dead.
Rameri asked Nefert: "What can have come to my sister? she seems quite strange to me; and you too are not the same as you used to be." "We both have to find our way in new circumstances." "What are they?" "That I cannot explain to you! but it appears to me that you soon may experience something of the same kind. Rumeri, do not go again to the paraschites."
"Indeed," said the student reflectively. "Is she over there in the city, or here in the Necropolis?" "Here. She is in fact the daughter of a paraschites." "Of a paraschites?" exclaimed Nebsecht, once more slipping the rabbit under the table, then I will go." "You curious fellow. I believe you expect to find something strange among the unclean folk." "That is my affair; but I will go.
When they drew near to the paraschites' hovel, he perceived the tumult among the people, and, loud above all the noise, heard Uarda's shrill cry of terror.
With one wrench he pulled out the heavy wooden pole, which supported the awning which the old paraschites had put up for his sick grandchild; he swung it round his head, as if it were a reed, driving back the crowd, while he called to Uarda to keep close to him. "He who touches the child is a dead man!" he cried.
The paraschites bowed his head at these words, and when he raised it the anger had vanished from his well-cut features. He rubbed his wrist, which had been squeezed by Pentaur's iron fingers, and said in a tone which betrayed all the bitterness of his feelings: "Thy hand is hard, Priest, and thy words hit like the strokes of a hammer.
The soldier had hidden his face in his hand; he was weeping aloud, and did not hear the question. But, the paraschites answered: "She was the child of some great personage, for in her clothes we found a golden jewel with a precious stone inscribed with strange characters. It is very costly, and my wife is keeping it for the little one."
A deep sympathy, a nameless anguish seized her soul, and before Pentaur could open his lips, she had sunk slowly down before Ameni, saying in low tones: "I have sinned and defiled myself; thou hast said it as Pentaur said it by the hut of the paraschites. Restore me to cleanness, Ameni, for I am unclean."
The men had finished their meal, and the flat cakes of bread which the wife of the paraschites gave them, and on which they had wiped their hands from the fat, were consumed, when the soldier, in whose slow brain the physician's question still lingered, said, sighing deeply: "Her mother was a stranger; she laid the white dove in the raven's nest."
Nebsecht went up and down the hillside at a redoubled pace, and had long taken his place by the couch of the wounded Uarda in the hovel of the paraschites, when Nemu drew near to the abode of his Mother Hekt, from whom Paaker had received the philter. The old woman sat before the door of her cave.
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