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Silence fell again, for the boat drifted on. At last dawn-lights reddened about the horizon; stars faded out of the uppermost as naturally as if they had been there during the three days of unlifting night. All Egypt showed up darkly in the coming day. Kenkenes, in his couch of reeds, slept on peacefully. The mid-morning sun shone in his face before he awakened.
The face was fine almost to haggardness; with long chin, delicate nose, and eager eyes, very shy. The boy had broken through the chrysalis of childhood, and not yet emerged into the fighting male. There was no down on his chin; the radiance of his cheek was yet undimmed. The soul, rosy behind its clouds, still tinged them with dawn-lights.
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