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"Dost thou know him?" Hotep queried. "Right well from afar and by hearsay." "Do thou express thyself first concerning him, and I shall treat thee to the courtier's diplomacy if I agree not." "I like him not," Kenkenes responded bluntly. Hotep leaned toward him, with the smile gone from his face, the jest from his manner, and laid his hand on the sculptor's.
The courtiers, who had stoically witnessed Meneptah's frantic grief, turned now and hid their blinded eyes. Hotep went to the Pharaoh and laid his hand on the monarch's shoulder. The action commanded. Exhausted by his frenzy, Meneptah leaned against his scribe. The cup-bearer and the captain released him and Hotep spoke quietly. "Seest thou, O my King, the sorrow of thy people?
The authority of Aziru extended to the northern frontier of the empire; we find him sent with the Egyptian general Khatip, or Hotep, to oppose the Hittite invasion, and writing to the king as well as to the prime minister Dudu to explain why they had not succeeded in doing so. Tunip had been invested by the enemy, and Aziru fears that it may fall into their hands.
A silence ensued, and by the signs growing on Meneptah's face, Hotep predicted acquiescence. It can not be said, however, that he noted them hopefully. Much time would elapse in which much contrary persuasion was possible before Israel could depart from Egypt. Rameses came out of the dusk at the end of the corridor. The king raised himself eagerly and summoned his son. "Hither, my Rameses!"
Let him have a care, hereafter, that he does not humiliate himself." "I thank thee, O Rameses." Saluting the prince, Hotep departed. That night he wrote to Kenkenes and to Mentu, and the two messengers departed ere midnight. Meanwhile Kenkenes seldom saw a human face. Food and water in red clay vessels, bearing the seal of Thebes, were set inside his door by disembodied hands.
At last, succumbing to melancholia, he became a child, for whom Hotep reigned and for whom the queen cared with touching devotion. The story of Seti is history. It is needless to say that his rough usage at the hands of Ta-user awakened him, but it was long before he found courage to return to Io, the sweetheart of his childhood.
The ninth did supply thee. Blessed be the number." Kenkenes smiled. "But there are seven Hathors, and five days in the epact and the Radiant Three. To me it seemeth there are many good numbers." Hotep plucked his sleeve. "Come, I will show thee the best of all One, the One." Kenkenes arose. "Let me robe myself befittingly, then." "Not too effectively," the scribe cried after him.
The aisle terminated at its lower end in a long white drift of sand against a great cube. Instinct and reason told Hotep that here had been the hiding-place of Athor, but there was no sign that human foot had ever entered the spot. After a space of puzzlement, Hotep smiled.
The other, from a writing of Ptah Hotep, about 3000 B.C., reads: "This is the command of the God of creation, the peaceable may come and issue orders.... The eating of bread is in conformity with the ordinance of God; can one forget that his blessing rests thereupon?... If thou art a prudent man teach thy son the love of God."
"A confederate thou must have," she complained; "and whom dost thou trust more than Ta-user?" "It is not a matter of trust," he explained, "but of thine immunity should the Hathors frown upon my plan." "It matters not," she protested. "Whom wilt thou trust and imperil instead of Ta-user?" "Thou dost hurry me in my plan-making," he remonstrated mildly. "Mayhap I shall choose Hotep."
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