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Then he felt in the breast of his dress, and going up to the paraschites he whispered: "Here, take the writing, hang it round your neck, and when you die I will have the book of scripture wrapped up in your mummy cloths like a great man. But that is not enough.
The hut of the paraschites was prohibited to him, but he knew that scarcely a hundred paces from the spot where Nefert was sitting, lived an old woman of evil repute, in whose hole in the rock he could not fail to find a drink of water. He hastened forward, half intoxicated with had seen and felt within the last few minutes.
You both know that Bent-Anat was pronounced unclean because she stayed for an hour and more in the house of a paraschites. She had an assignation there with the priest. At a second, in the temple of Hatasu, they were surprised by Septah, the chief of the haruspices of the House of Seti." "Who is the priest?" asked Ani with apparent calmness.
"Packer's chariot lies dashed in pieces in the valley, and his best horse is badly hurt." "He will see to him when he has taken the physician to the house of the paraschites," said the princess. "He would not have welcomed us kindly!" said the master of the ceremonies, laughing. "But the leech, the leech!" cried Bent-Anat. "Packer, it is settled then.
Pentaur's glance flew round the one low, over-filled room of the paraschites' hut, and like a lightning flash the thought, "How will the princess and her train find room here?" flew through his mind.
The child of a paraschites is to be tended like a princess, and a leech have a noble to guide him, like the Pharaoh himself! I ought to have kept on my three robes!" "The night is warm," said Pentaur. "But Paaker has strange ways with him. Only the day before yesterday I was called to a poor boy whose collar bone he had simply smashed with his stick.
When the old woman had once more disappeared indoors, he asked the paraschites: "Whose heart is it that you have brought me, and how did it come into your hands?" "Tell me first," said the other, "why thou hast laid such a heavy sin upon my soul?"
"Good-by; I am charged to look into the tomb of our house, and see whether the offerings for the dead are regularly set out; to pour out fresh essences and have various things renewed. When Sechet has ceased to rage, and it is cooler, I shall come by here again, for I should like to call on the paraschites, and see how the poor child is."
Of daughters of paraschites there were plenty; but I wanted to get away out of my father's accursed caste, and the other girls here, as I knew, were afraid of our uncleanness. In the low country I had done better, and many an Amu and Schasu woman had gladly come to my tent. From the beginning I had set my mind on an Asiatic.
"Do you know the dwelling of Pinem the paraschites?" asked Paaker. "What do you want with him?" "That is no concern of yours," retorted Paaker. "Lout!" exclaimed the captain, "left face and forwards, my men." "Halt!" cried Paaker in a rage. "I am the king's chief pioneer." "Then you will all the more easily find the way back by which you came. March."
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