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According to Manetho, it was under a king named Timaos that a horde of invaders the Hyksos, or "shepherds" came in from the north, devastated the country, and made themselves its rulers. They were probably of Semitic descent, but nothing more is known as to their origin.
In front of the altar stands a ministerial figure, none other than Manetho, who must have taken orders, and joins together, in holy matrimony, the yellow-bearded Thor and the dark-haired Helen.
Hence, on the one hand, there appeared works on universal history by Greek polymaths, such as Hecataeus of Abdera, Theophrastus, the pupil of Aristotle, and Ptolemy, the comrade of Alexander; and, on the other hand, a number of national histories were written, also in Greek, but by Hellenized natives, such as the Chaldaica of Berosus, the Aegyptiaca of Manetho, and the Phoenician chronicles of Dius and Menander.
Now Manetho, after his dynasties of gods and demi-gods, states that thirty Memphite kings reigned for 1,790 years, and were followed by ten Thinite kings whose reigns covered a period of 350 years. Neglecting the figures as obviously erroneous, we may well admit that the Greek historian here alludes to our two pre-Menite dynasties.
Four-and-twenty years ago this day, I married your parents on this very spot. The anniversary shall become a double one!" The black eye-sockets of the mummy stared Balder in the face. But at a touch from Manetho, he turned, and saw Gnulemah, bright with beautiful enchantment, in the doorway. "Yes, to-day!" he said impetuously.
The priest fell back on the truth of the Scriptures, the tradition of the human race, and the animals discovered in the ice in Siberia. "That does not prove that man existed at the time they did." The earth, in Pécuchet's view, was much older. "The delta of the Mississippi goes back to tens of thousands of years. The actual epoch is a hundred thousand, at least. The lists of Manetho "
O my flower fascinating, terrible! the time is ripe for the gathering, for the smelling of the perfume, for the kissing of the petals! I must yield thee up, O my idol! but in thy hand are my life and my reason, yea, Gnulemah, thou art all I am!" The tears, gestures, voice, with which Manetho thus delivered himself, shocked the Northern taste of Helwyse.
As for her, she trusted Balder more freely than herself. Manetho was laid gently on the broad robe, and so upraised and borne forwards; Balder at the head, Gnulemah at the foot. Heavy, heavy is a lifeless body; but the man had cause to wonder at the woman's fresh and easy strength.
At all events he neither hesitated nor turned back. The service began, none the less hallowed for the lovers, because for Manetho it was the solemn perversion of a sacred ceremony. His voice labored through the perfumed air, and recoiled in broken echoes from gloomy corners and deep-tinted walls.
'Have you read the ancient ones? asked Laura. 'I've had nothing else to read. 'Nothing to read but ancient books! exclaimed Amabel, with a mixture of pity and astonishment. 'Sanchoniathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus! said Guy, smiling. 'There, Amy, said Charles, 'if he has the Vicar of Wakefield among his ancient books, you need not pity him.
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