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Paaker's associates held him to be a man of quick decision, and, in fact, in difficult cases he could act with unusual rapidity, but what guided him in these cases, was not the swift-winged judgment of a prepared and well-schooled brain, but usually only resulted from the outcome of a play of question and answer.
"The Mohar then must be equally skilled as a warrior and as a Scribe." "As thou sayest; and Paaker's father was not a hero only, but at the same time a writer, whose close and clear information depicted the country through which he had travelled as plainly as if it were seen from a mountain height. He was the first who took the title of Mohar.
As his brother Horus grew up, he had followed him as his obedient assistant, even after he had married a wife, who, with her child, remained in Thebes under the care of Setchem. He was now filling Paaker's place in Syria during his absence; badly enough, as the pioneer thought, and yet not without credit; for the fellow knew how to write smooth words with a graceful pen.
"The Mohar then must be equally skilled as a warrior and as a Scribe." "As thou sayest; and Paaker's father was not a hero only, but at the same time a writer, whose close and clear information depicted the country through which he had travelled as plainly as if it were seen from a mountain height. He was the first who took the title of Mohar.
"What else has occurred?" "The Regent's army has conquered the Ethiopians, and is coming home with rich spoils." "People may be bought with treasure," muttered the old woman, "I good good!" "Paaker's sword is sharpened; I would give no more for my master's life, than I have in my pocket and you know why I came on foot through the dust."
They gained the shore in silence, where Paaker's boat was waiting, which also conveyed his chariot. He lay down in the little cabin, called the dwarf to him, and said: "I am Katuti's nearest relative; we are now reconciled; why does she not turn to me in her difficulty?" "Because she is proud, and thy blood flows in her veins.
"What else has occurred?" "The Regent's army has conquered the Ethiopians, and is coming home with rich spoils." "People may be bought with treasure," muttered the old woman, "I good good!" "Paaker's sword is sharpened; I would give no more for my master's life, than I have in my pocket and you know why I came on foot through the dust."
Palms, sycamores, and acacia-trees, figs, pomegranates, and jasmine throve here particularly well for Paaker's mother, Setchem, superintended the labors of the gardeners; and in the large tank in the midst there was never any lack of water for watering the beds and the roots of the trees, as it was always supplied by two canals, into which wheels turned by oxen poured water day and night from the Nile-stream.
Palms, sycamores, and acacia-trees, figs, pomegranates, and jasmine throve here particularly well for Paaker's mother, Setchem, superintended the labors of the gardeners; and in the large tank in the midst there was never any lack of water for watering the beds and the roots of the trees, as it was always supplied by two canals, into which wheels turned by oxen poured water day and night from the Nile-stream.
Paaker's gifts can no more be pleasing to the Celestials than a cask of attar of roses would please thee, haruspex, in which scorpions, centipedes, and venomous snakes were swimming. I have long led this man's prayers, and never have I heard him crave for noble gifts, but a thousand times for the injury of the men he hates."
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