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After this he asked their counsel, saying that before noon he must send an answer to Idernes, the King's Satrap at Sais. Then I was called upon to speak and, in answer to questions, answered frankly that I had stolen the ancient White Seal from the King's servant who carried it as a warrant for the King's private vengeance on one who had bested him. How I did not mention.
"Exactly," sais I; "but I thought mother spoke kinder cross to her, and it confused the gall. "Says Flora, 'Colonel Slick, Mr Dearborne says says Well, she couldn't get the rest out; she couldn't find the English. 'Mr Dearborne says "'Well, what the devil does he say? said father, stampin' his foot, out of all patience with her.
"'Parley vous French, sais I, 'Mountsheer? At that, they sot to, and larfed again more than ever, I thought they would have gone into the high strikes, they hee-hawed so. "Well, one on 'em, that was a Duke, as I found out afterwards, said 'O yees, Saar, we spoked English too. "'Lawful heart! sais I, 'what's the joke?
"Not that, O Satrap, only the commands of the King of kings which are prepared ready to deliver to you under the White Seal that you acknowledge." "And what may they be, Egyptian?" "This, O Satrap: That you and all the army which you have brought with you retire to Sais and thence out of Egypt as quickly as you may, or pay for disobedience with your lives." Now Idernes and his captains gasped.
It seemed to him in the hush of the dawn that all the big world had been bidden to stand still and look at Wee Willie Winkie guilty of mutiny. The drowsy sais gave him his mount, and, since the one great sin made all others insignificant, Wee Willie Winkie said that he was going to ride over to Coppy Sahib, and went out at a foot-pace, stepping on the soft mould of the flower-borders.
Oh, she sais, the sudden joy of that sudden stop swelled her heart so big, she thought it would have bust like a byler; and, as it was, the great endurin' long breath she drew, arter such an alfired escape, almost killed her at the ebb, it hurt her so." "But," said Mr. Hopewell, "how did the ten commandments save her? Do you mean that figuratively, or literally.
I thought I must have neglected you." "Well," sais I, "there are two more, Sir." "Two more," he said, "why what under the sun do you mean? what are they?" "Why," sais I, "the eleventh is, 'Expect nothin', and you shall not be disappointed, and the twelfth is, 'Fret not thy gizzard." "And pray, Sir," said he, lookin' thunder-squalls at me, "where did you learn them?"
Sais he, 'How would you like to take charge of my almighty everlastin' property? "'Delighted! says the goney. "'Well, said Mr Astor, 'I am tired to death looking after it; if you will relieve me and do my work, I'll give you what I get out of it myself. "'Done! said the man, takin' off his hat, and bowin' down to the ground.
Amasis will go on in this manner until the strangers drive him from his throne and country, and plunder and make slaves of us poor creatures, as the evil Hyksos, those scourges of Egypt, and the black Ethiopians did, in the days of old." "The seventh boat!" shouted the tailor. "May my protectress Neith, the great goddess of Sais, destroy me, if I can understand the king," complained the priest.
'My foaming bay was reined in with a strong hand, I leaped from the saddle, and found the sais at hand to hold our horses, while we saw the seventh heaven of the Koran, and by no means al Hotama.