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"'O Oraetes, I am astonished that one so wise and great should not know how to cure a sorrow like this. "'Tell me a cure, said the king. "Three times the colchyte kissed the floor, and then he replied, knowing the dead could not hear him, 'At Essouan lives Ne-ne-hofra, beautiful as Athor the beautiful. Send for her.
"At twelve, Ne-ne-hofra was the delight of Essouan; at sixteen, the fame of her beauty was universal; at twenty, there was never a day which did not bring to her door princes of the desert on swift camels, and lords of Egypt in gilded barges; and, going away disconsolate, they reported everywhere, 'I have seen her, and she is not a woman, but Athor herself."
Whatever the cause of her decline, the charms of the magicians availed not to restore her, and the prescript of the doctor was equally without virtue. Ne-ne-hofra was given over to die.
Make the island, and let it be fully furnished by the time the moon begins to wane. "Then to the queen he said, "'Be of cheer. I know all, and have sent for Barbec. "Ne-ne-hofra kissed his hands. "'You shall have him to yourself, and he you to himself; nor shall any disturb your loves for a year.
"Through a dromos of sphinxes and couchant double-winged lions she was borne, and set down before Oraetes sitting on a throne specially erected at the sculptured pylon of the palace. He raised her up, gave her place by his side, clasped the uraeus upon her arm, kissed her, and Ne-ne-hofra was queen of all queens.
"Perfect lives are the treasures of God; of great days he wears them on the ring-finger of his heart hand." "Ne-ne-hofra dwelt in a house close by Essouan, yet closer to the first cataract so close, indeed, that the sound of the eternal battle waged there between river and rocks was of the place a part.
She has refused all the lords and princes, and I know not how many kings; but who can say no to Oraetes?" "Ne-ne-hofra descended the Nile in a barge richer than any ever before seen, attended by an army in barges each but a little less fine.
"'She is dead. Do thy work well." "Ne-ne-hofra the beautiful, after seventy-two days, was carried to the crypt chosen for her the year before, and laid with her queenly predecessors; yet there was no funeral procession in her honor across the sacred lake." At the conclusion of the story, Ben-Hur was sitting at the Egyptian's feet, and her hand upon the tiller was covered by his hand.
"'Thou guilty! he continued. 'Thy offense to Oraetes the man he forgives; but thy offence to Oraetes the king remains to be punished. "She cast herself at his feet. "'Hush! he cried. 'Thou art dead! "He clapped his hands, and a terrible procession came in a procession of parachistes, or embalmers, each with some implement or material of his loathsome art. "The King pointed to Ne-ne-hofra.
The papyrus from which it was taken by the priests of Philae was wrested from the hand of the heroine herself. It is correct in form, and must be true: NE-NE-HOFRA. "There is no parallelism in human lives. "No life runs a straight line. "The most perfect life develops as a circle, and terminates in its beginning, making it impossible to say, This is the commencement, that the end.
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