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How could she now have that other life with Nigel? He would never be Lord Harwich. He would never be anything but Nigel Armine, a man of moderate means interested in Egyptian agriculture, with a badly let property in England, and a strip of desert in the Fayyūm. He would never be anything except that and her husband, the man who had "let her in."
The finding of the jewels proved that Michael's theories and occult beliefs were justified. "And after the war you will be able to go with him on his second pilgrimage, for certainly the spirit of Akhnaton has saved the treasure for him. What the world calls chance has preserved the King's legacy from profane hands." The letter was written from the Fayyum, where Hadassah was staying with her boy.
On the following evening, by the express that went to Cairo, Nigel started for the Fayyūm. The Loulia gone from the reach of the river which was visible from the garden of the Villa Androud; Nigel gone from the house which was surrounded by that garden; a complete solitude, a complete emptiness of golden days stretching out before Mrs. Armine!
"I like the man to whom his beliefs mean something, even if they're not mine and could never be mine." So the fate of Hamza and Ibrahim was very easily settled. But when Nigel called Ibrahim, and told him that he had decided on taking him and Hamza to the Fayyūm, and that he was to tell Hamza at once, Ibrahim looked a little doubtful. "All what my gentleman want I do," he said.
The Vth Dynasty favoured Abusîr, between Cîza and Sakkâra; the Vith, as we have said, preferred Sakkâra itself. Where the Herakleopolite kings were buried we do not know; probably somewhere in the local necropolis of the Gebel es-Sedment, between Ahnasya and the Fayyûm.
"You think I only care for money?" he said, nettled, despite himself, at the sound of knowledge in her voice. "What do you know of me?" "And you of me?" She still spoke lightly, smilingly. But he thought of the inexorable beating of that pulse of life of life, and the will to live as her philosophy desired. "I don't wish to speak of any knowledge I may have of you. But leave Armine in the Fayyūm."
All my life I've slept so well till now. And the rheumatic pains; how can the sun Ruby, sometimes I think it's nothing to do with the sun." "But, then, what can it be? You know you would expose yourself, though I begged and implored " "But the heat's nothing new to me. For months in the Fayyûm I worked in the full glare of the sun. And it never hurt me." "Nigel, it was the sun.
She liked you from the first, and I think has always wished to know you better since you went to cheer her up in her London solitude. Some day I suppose she will have the chance, but now we are on the eve of cutting ourselves off from every one and giving ourselves up to the Nile. You are surprised, perhaps? You thought I should be hard at it in the Fayyūm, looking after my brown fellows?
He looked at her and smiled, slightly pouting his thick lips. "Even if I could go to the Fayyûm, I don't think it would be much good," he answered. He had no scruple in stripping her bare of subterfuge. "I meant that your advice on Egyptian agriculture might be valuable to my husband," she retorted, with composure.
The governmental centre of gravity was finally transferred to Memphis, and the kings were thenceforth for several centuries buried in the great pyramids which still stand in serried order along the western desert border of Egypt, from the Delta to the province of the Fayyum. With the latest discoveries in this Memphite pyramid-field we shall deal in the next chapter.
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