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"She kissed his cheek and said, 'Take me back, O good king, for I am cured. "Oraetes laughed, none the worse, that moment, of his hundred and fourteen years. "'Then it is true, as Menopha said: ha, ha, ha! it is true, the cure of love is love. "'Even so, she replied. "Suddenly his manner changed, and his look became terrible. "'I did not find it so, he said. "She shrank affrighted.
Send for him, O Oraetes, and he will tell you that you seek to know; he will also help you find the cure for my affliction. "Oraetes arose rejoicing. He went away in spirit a hundred years younger than when he came." "'Speak! said Oraetes to Menopha, in the palace at Memphis.
"Menopha was wrong," he said. "How?" "Love lives by loving." "Then there is no cure for it?" "Yes. Oraetes found the cure." "What was it?" "Death." "You are a good listener, O son of Arrius." And so with conversation and stories, they whiled the hours away. As they stepped ashore, she said, "To-morrow we go to the city." "But you will be at the games?" he asked. "Oh yes."
I swear it, by the genii of Amente! by the eye of Osiris, I swear it! Speak! he cried, passionate as a lover, authoritative as a king. "'Hear, then, she said. 'There is an anchorite, the oldest and holiest of his class, in a cave near Essouan. His name is Menopha. He was my teacher and guardian.
"And Menopha replied, 'Most mighty king, if you were young, I should not answer, because I am yet pleased with life; as it is, I will say the queen, like any other mortal, is paying the penalty of a crime. "'A crime! exclaimed Oraetes, angrily. "Menopha bowed very low. "'Yes; to herself. "'I am not in mood for riddles, said the king. "'What I say is not a riddle, as you shall hear.
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