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When you are Pharaoh you will learn that a monarch is a slave to the people and to the law. Breathe but his name in love, and never will you see him more till you meet before Osiris." Tua hid her eyes in her hands for a moment, then she glanced up and there was another look upon her face, a strange, new look.
Captains, my Lady is ready to march towards the City of Gold, whither you will lead us." For day after day, for week after week, for month after month, they marched southward and westward across the Desert, and in the centre of their host, mounted upon camels, rode Tua and Asti veiled.
Contemplate their mighty works, such as no monarch can build to-day, and suffer them to rest therein undisturbed by weaker folk." "Do you call these mighty works?" asked Tua contemptuously, for she was angry because Asti would not try to raise the dead. "What are they after all, but so many stones put together by the labour of men to satisfy their own vanity?
"A stranger who did not know the truth might think he was its king, my father, and to be plain, if I were Pharaoh, and had chosen to enter here, it would have been with a larger force." "We can go away when we like, Tua," said Pharaoh uneasily.
I hope, nay, am sure that my son can retort with sincerity from this shepherd's dialogue turned upside down, "O fortunate senex; ergo tua rura manebunt" "Oh, happy old man; therefore your little fields and little woodlands at Newlands shall still flourish and abound."
Now Pharaoh whispered to Tua to put on one of the necklaces, but she would not, saying that the colour of the stones did not match her white robe and the blue lotus flowers which she wore.
"Now shall I strike upon the harp and call upon the name of Kepher, as he bade me?" asked Tua. "I think not yet awhile, Lady. This danger may pass by or the night bring counsel, and then he would be angry if you summoned him for naught. Let us go in and eat."
Be more polite, or I'll stand here and sing you the whole of it." The window slammed shut. Ned Trent took up his walk again toward some designated sleeping-place of his own, his song dying into the distance. "Visa le noir, tua le blanc, En roulant ma boule, O fils du roi, tu es mêchant! Rouli roulant, ma boule roulant." "And he can sing!" cried the girl bitterly to herself. "At such a time!
Moreover, the man had been slain at a feast in Pharaoh's Court, and by an officer of Pharaoh's guard, which afterwards had killed his escort under the eyes of Egypt's monarchs, the hand of one of whom he sought in marriage. Such a deed must mean a bitter war for Egypt, and to those who struck the blow death, as Rames himself knew well. Tua looked at him kneeling before her, and her heart ached.
In the morning, after Tua and Asti had put on the clean robes that lay to their hands, and eaten, suddenly they looked up and perceived that Kepher, the ancient beggar of the desert, was in the room with them, though neither of them had heard or seen him enter. "You come silently, Friend," said Asti, looking at him with a curious eye.
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