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He standeth up in his place between the Two Great Gods, and his sceptre and staff are in his hands. He lifteth up his hand to the Henmemet spirits, and the gods come to him with bowings. The Two Great Gods look on in their places, and they find Pepi acting as judge of the gods. The word of every spirit-soul is in him, and they make offerings to him among the Two Companies of the Gods.
On Lorand's left sat Topándy, on his right, beside me, Pepi Gyáli. "Well, old fellow, you too will drink with us to-day?" said Lorand to me playfully, putting his arms familiarly round my neck. "No, you know I never drink wine." "Never? Not to-day either? Not even to my health?" I looked at him. Why did he wish to make me drink to-day especially? "No, Lorand.
At the centre of the table, which stood on a raised platform in front of the great black pedestal of the Colossus of Pepi, Nitocris the Queen sat in her chair of ivory and gold, clad in almost transparent robes of the finest silk of Cos, shining with gems, and crowned with the Uraeus Snake, and the double diadem of the Two Lands.
"Well, old fellow: are you not coming to-day to see little Melanie? There will be a great dance-rehearsal." "I cannot: I have too much to do." Pepi laughed loudly. "Very well, old fellow." His laughter did not affect me in the least. "But when you have learned all there is to learn will you come again?" "No. For then I shall write a letter to my mother."
He dilated upon a rare find of some blue-green tiles of the time of King Tjeser, a third dynasty monarch, and a mummy case of one of the court of King Pepi, of the sixth dynasty, "about 3300 B.C.," he translated for Billy, and then suddenly he saw that Billy's eyes were absent and Billy's pipe was out. In sudden silence he knocked out the ashes from his own pipe and slowly refilled it.
In the meantime they had reached the park; they found Topándy and Czipra by the bridge. Lorand introduced Pepi Gyáli as his old school-fellow. That name fairly magnetized Czipra. Melanie's fiancé! So the lover had come after his bride. What a kind fellow this Pepi Gyáli was! A really most amiable young man!
But this handful in rebellion against Egypt! The military of the Memphian nome will crush them as if they had been so many ants." "I know," the serving-woman admitted. "The soldier I had it from, said that the city commandant would move against them by noon this day." "The gods help them!" Pepi put in. "Thy prayer is too late, Pepi," Masanath answered.
And now the bridal feast was spread in the great banqueting hall which Pepi the Wise had made deep down in the foundations of his palace below the waters of the Nile at flood-time, and at midnight the waters would be at the full.
Every ordinary man of honor would have done the same. It is just as little a merit not to be a traitor as it is a great ignominy to be one. Am I not right? Pepi, my friend?" Pepi Gyáli decided that Lorand could not have heard of his treachery and would not know it until he was placed in some safe place. He answered naturally enough that no greater disgrace existed on earth than that of treachery.
The canopic vases of Pepi I. are of alabaster; and those of a king buried in the southernmost pyramid at Lisht are also of alabaster, as are the human heads upon the lids. One, indeed, is of such fine execution that I can only compare it with that of the statue of Khafra.
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