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It is like silk from Tyre, like a swan's breast, like golden star-beams there, it is fixed safely! Nay, leave it so. If the seven Hathors could see you, they would be jealous, for you are fairer than all of them." "How you flatter!" said Uarda, shyly blushing, and looking into his sparkling eyes. "Uarda," said the prince, pressing her hand to his heart. "I have now but one wish.
Nebsecht rose, and sat down on a hen-coop that was some paces from Uarda, and asked stammering, "Shall I go farther off?" "Do as you please," she answered. "You are not kind," he said sadly.
And he thought of the white and fragile form of the sick girl lying within on the mat, and a question escaped his lips. "Is the maiden, is Uarda, your own child?" he said. The soldier struck himself on the breast. "So sure as the king Rameses is the son of Seti," he answered.
She gave him some water, and desired him to drink it, saying, as Uarda shook herself free from the bonds: "The Gods have predestined you to great things, you white maiden. Listen to what I, old Hekt, am telling you. The king's life is threatened, his and his children's; I purpose to save them, and I ask no reward but this- that he should have my body embalmed and interred at Thebes.
Falling walls choked up the way in front of these brave adventurers; but it was not till several had fallen choked or struck down by burning logs, that they made up their minds to retire one of the first that was killed was Katuti's son, Nefert's brother. Uarda had been carried into the nearest tent.
Uarda still lay, when the sun was sinking, in front of the hut. She looked weary and pale. Her long hair had come undone, and once more got entangled with the straw of her humble couch. If Nebsecht went near her to feel her pulse or to speak to her she carefully turned her face from him.
"Till the last of all the thousand moons that vanish behind the hills is set." "Well then, wait on the other side of the stream, and conduct the man to your house, who repeats my name three times. You know my name?" "I call you Silver-star, but the others call you Uarda." "Lead the strangers to your hut, and, if they are received there by your father, come back and tell me.
At last the king signed to the interpreter; Uarda was asked to tell all she knew of her mother, and when she said that she had come a captive to Thebes with an infant that had soon after died, that her father had bought her and had loved her in spite of her being dumb, the prince's conviction became certainty; he acknowledged Uarda as his grandchild, and Praxilla clasped her in her arms.
Nefert rejoiced in the splendid person of the poet, and frequently repeated that he was as like her dead uncle the father of Paaker, the chief-pioneer as if he were his younger brother. Uarda never wearied of contemplating him and her beloved princess.
Open your eyes! how thankful, how joyful I shall be if those two suns only rise again." Bent-Anat smiled, and drew her brother away from the heavily-breathing girl, for a leech came into the tent to say that a warm medicated bath had been prepared and was ready for Uarda.