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Put the folly from thy mind, Masanath, and trouble me not concerning a single slave. Shall I let one go, seeing that I am holding the body at the sacrifice of Egypt?" Great was Masanath's distress to make her seize him so beseechingly. "Turn not away, my Lord," she begged. "See what havoc I have wrought for Rachel when I sought to help her. And behold the honesty of thy boast of love for me.
Of the love of Hotep and Masanath something yet remains to be told. It was common to examine the entire family of a traitor as to their complicity in his misdeeds, and the option lay with the Pharaoh whether or not they should bear some of his punishment. Har-hat was dead, the army destroyed at his hands. When the news of the disaster reached Tanis Meneptah's anger and grief knew no bounds.
"I will stay till my people go if they depart within twenty days," Rachel made answer. "But I must be gone ere thy father's servant returns." Masanath rebelled, sobbing. "Nay, weep not. The hour is distant. In that time, since these are days of miracles, thy sorrows and mine may have faded like a mist. Come, no more. Let us bide the workings of the good God." Imhotep The physician-god.
This day Masanath, who had been ill, was unusually downcast. "It may be," she said with more cheer in her tones than had been in her previous remarks, "that I shall die before they can wed me to Rameses." "Nay, why not say that the Lord God will interfere before that time?"
He seized the sweep and drove the raft about, poling with wide strokes. At that moment, a cry, which was more of a hoarse whisper, broke from his lips. "Body of Osiris! The river! the river!" Masanath leaned on one hand and looked over the side of the raft. With a bound and a shivering cry, Nari was cowering beside her, the little craft tossing on the waves at the force of the leap.
"So he prospereth all his chosen." Masanath shook her head and looked away. From the stairway Nan approached. "Unas hath come from Tanis, my Lady," she said with suppressed excitement. Masanath sat up, trembling. "Isis grant he hath not come to take thee to marriage," the waiting woman breathed. Rachel laid an inquiring hand on the little Egyptian's arm. "My father's courier," she explained.
Masanath wrapped a woolen mantle about her and sat at the window overlooking the park. Without was the wide hollow, walled by the many-galleried stories of the king's house. Below a fountain of running water, issuing from an ibis-bill of bronze, and falling into a pool, purled and splashed and talked on and on to itself. Above, the mighty constellations were dropping slowly down the west.
Command in the form of persuasion is doubly effective, since it induces while it compels. Masanath was most amenable to this manner of entreaty, since it disarmed her pride while it governed her impulses. Thus, though her inclination urged against it, she ate when the Israelite brought her a bit of cold fowl and a beaker of wine at midday and again at sunset.
Meanwhile do not build on wedding with Masanath. I shall mate her with him who hath respect for her father." For a moment Rameses stood in doubt. Could it be that this soulless man had scruples against giving him Masanath? But Har-hat, allowed a chance to leave the prince if he would, had not moved. Rameses understood the act.
Har-hat could not add to his sentence. That was the only indisputable cheer he could give. But would Rameses stay the chief adviser's hand, seeing that the winning of Masanath depended on the prince's neutrality, as Hotep had explained? If Rachel fled to Mentu, as Kenkenes had bidden her, could the murket protect her, even at his own peril?
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