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Updated: June 16, 2025
You look only at to-day, we look forward to the morrow, and what we announce as truth you must needs believe. And mark my words: A lie stains the soul, but doubt eats into it." Ameni had spoken with strong excitement; when Pentaur had left the room, and he was alone with Gagabu, he exclaimed: "What things are these? Who is ruining the innocent child-like spirit of this highly favored youth?"
"That you must explain," cried a voice from the table of the military officers. "It makes young men of the old," laughed the octogenarian, "and children of the young." "He has you there, you youngsters," cried Gagabu. "What have you to say, Septah?" "Wine is a poison," said the morose haruspex, "for it makes fools of wise men." "Then you have little to fear from it, alas!" said Gagabu laughing.
"He emulates him in every respect," sneered Gagabu; "and though he does not resemble him in any feature, grows more and more like him. But unfortunately, it is as the goose resembles the swan, or the owl resembles the eagle. For his father's noble pride he has overbearing haughtiness; for kindly severity, rude harshness; for dignity, conceit; for perseverance, obstinacy.
Ameni left the pavilion to go to see old Gagabu, who had stood so long in the heat of the sun during the ceremony of receiving the conqueror, that he had been at last carried fainting to the tent which he shared with the high-priest, and which was not far from that of the Regent.
You know I cannot go alone to the sick, because my leather tongue is unable to recite the sentences or to wring rich offerings for the temple from the dying. Go, while I undress, to the prophet Gagabu and beg him to send the pastophorus Teta, who usually accompanies me." "I would seek a young assistant rather than that blind old man." "Not at all.
In a few moments they both entered the great hall, which was brilliantly lighted. Not one of the chiefs of the House of Seti was absent. Ameni sat on a raised seat at a long table; on his right hand was old Gagabu, on his left the third Prophet of the temple.
"That there always is!" answered Ameni; he called Gagabu to him, gave him his seat, begged him to keep up the flow of cheerful conversation, to encourage the guests to drink, and to interrupt all talk of the king, the state, or the war. "You know," he concluded, "that we are not by ourselves this evening. Wine has, before this, betrayed everything!
Gagabu eagerly echoed the words. Ameni gave the old man his hand, which trembled with excitement, and went on more calmly. "The Regent Ani is a legitimate child of the soil, by his father and mother both. I know him well, and I am sure that though he is cunning indeed, he is full of true veneration, and will righteously establish us in the rights which we have inherited.
And who does not know thy name, Gagabu, or thine, Meriapu?" "And which of you," asked the other new-comer, may we greet as the author of the most beautiful hymn to Amon, which was ever sung in the land of the Sycamore? Which of you is Pentaur?" "The empty chair yonder," answered Gagabu, pointing to a seat at the lower end of the table, "is his.
Gagabu eagerly echoed the words. Ameni gave the old man his hand, which trembled with excitement, and went on more calmly. "The Regent Ani is a legitimate child of the soil, by his father and mother both. I know him well, and I am sure that though he is cunning indeed, he is full of true veneration, and will righteously establish us in the rights which we have inherited.
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