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Updated: May 11, 2025
But as she prepared to cross the forecourt, suddenly, without warning, the priests' chant swelled to a terrible, almost thundering loudness, the clear, shrill voice of the Temple scholars rising in passionate lament, supported by the deep and threatening roll of the basses. Bent-Anat started and checked her steps. Then she walked on again.
Before he entered the court-yard he ordered the crowd to disperse; the refractory were driven away by force, and in a few minutes the valley was cleared of the howling and shouting mob, and the burning house was surrounded by soldiers. Bent-Anat, Rameri, and Nefert were obliged to quit their places by the fence; Rameri, so soon as he saw that Uarda was safe, had rejoined his sister.
"Ameni only exercises his rights," said Bent-Anat gently, "and you know what we have resolved. I will not hear one hard word about him to-day." "Very well! he has graciously and mercifully kept us from the feast," said Rameri ironically, and he bowed low in the direction of the Necropolis, "and you are unclean.
The old woman must lay down the head that rested in her bosom, the paraschites must drop the feet he so anxiously rubbed, on the floor, to rise and kiss the dust before Bent-Anat.
"There," said the Mohar, pointing to two huts close to the left cliff of the valley, built of bricks made of dried Nile-mud, "there, the neatest, next the cave in the rock." Bent-Anat went towards the solitary hovel with a beating heart; Paaker let the ladies go first. A few steps brought them to an ill-constructed fence of canestalks, palm-branches, briars and straw, roughly thrown together.
But by degrees he recovered himself, his spirit grew clearer, and when he left the little room to look towards the east where, on the farther shore, rose the palace where Bent-Anat must be a deep contempt for his enemies filled his soul, and a proud feeling of renewed manly energy.
"You will leave us alone?" asked Bent-Anat. "Do not make me anxious," said Rameri. "Go then," said the princess. "If my father were here how willingly I would go too." "Come with me," cried the boy. "We can easily find a disguise for you too." "Folly!" said Bent-Anat; but she looked enquiringly at Nefert, who shrugged her shoulders, as much as to say: "Your will is my law."
Bent-Anat had listened to her without interrupting her; she sat by her for a time in silence. Then she said: "Come out into the gallery; then I will tell you what I think, and perhaps Toth may pour some helpful counsel into my mind. I love you, and I know you well, and though I am not wise, I have my eyes open and a strong hand. Take it, come with me on to the balcony."
In her hours of most lively expectation she could go so far as to picture how the party in the tents would be divided, and who would bear Bent-Anat company if Mena took her with him to his camp, on what spot of the oasis it would be best to pitch it, and much more in the same vein. Uarda could very well take her place with Bent-Anat, for the child had developed and improved on the journey.
How rudely the people press! As soon as the God is gone by we will go home." "Pray do," said Nefert. "I am so frightened!" and she pressed trembling to the side of the princess. "I wish we were at home, too," replied Bent-Anat. "Only look!" said Rameri. "There they are. Is it not splendid? And how the heart shines, as if it were a star!"
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