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but Nemu had parted with his last money for a garment and a new wig, so that he might appear worthily attired before the Regent. In former times his pocket had never been empty, for Mena had thrown him many a ring of silver, or even of gold, but his restless and ambitious spirit wasted no regrets on lost luxuries.
Since his conversation with Nemu, and the dwarf's interpretation of his dream, the path which he must tread to reach his aim had been plain before him. Nefert's mother must be won with the gold which would save her from disgrace, and Mena must be sent to the other world. He relied chiefly on his own reckless obstinacy which he liked to call firm determination Nemu's cunning, and the love-philter.
At these words the dwarf rose, turned to go, and said indifferently: "I would pick the stars carefully off my back, and send you the finest of the planets in return for your juicy bit of roast. But here come the chariots. Farewell! my lords, when the vulture's beak seizes one of you and carries you off to the war in Syria, remember the words of the little Nemu who knows men and noses."
When we are plotting against a man we are inclined to regard him as an enemy, and if he offers us a rose we believe it to be for the sake, not of the perfume, but of the thorns. The dwarf Nemu was brought before the Regent and threw himself on the ground at his feet. Ani ordered the attendants to leave him, and said to the little man "You compelled me to put you in prison. Stand up!"
But these delights, which Nemu had passed a thousand times, had never had any temptation for him.
"At any rate your words show that you have not grown less wise since I saw you last and I am glad of it, for I want your advice." "Advice is cheap. What is going on out there?" Nemu related to his mother shortly, clearly, and without reserve, what was plotting in his mistress's house, and the frightful disgrace with which she was threatened through her son.
The vigorous walker had soon reached him, and bid him good morning, which he civilly returned. The hill-path was narrow, and when Nemu observed that the man who followed him was a priest, he drew up his donkey on a level spot, and said reverently: "Pass on, holy father; for thy two feet carry thee quicker than my four."
Early on the following clay the dwarf Nemu went past the restored hut of Uarda's father in which he had formerly lived with his wife with a man in a long coarse robe, the steward of some noble family. They went towards old Hekt's cave-dwelling. "I would beg thee to wait down here a moment, noble lord," said the dwarf, "while I announce thee to my mother." "That sounds very grand," said the other.
The old woman laughed loud in astonishment. "Bound!" she said, "I? and to what if you please?" "To help me," replied the dwarf, half in entreaty, and half in reproach. "You deprived me of my growth, and reduced me to a cripple." "Because no one is better off than you dwarfs," interrupted the witch. Nemu shook his head, and answered sadly
"He will be rejoiced to see you, for he esteems you highly and was a friend of your father's." As soon as Katuti had left the hall, the dwarf Nemu crept out of his hiding-place, placed himself in front of Paaker, and asked boldly: "Well? Did I give thee good advice yesterday, or no?" Put Paaker did not answer him, he pushed him aside with his foot, and walked up and down in deep thought.
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