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Updated: May 10, 2025
A heart-rending cry of pain from within the hut trembled in the air and arrested the steps of the two women. Nefert staggered and clung to her stronger companion, whose beating heart she seemed to hear. Both stood a few minutes as if spellbound, then the princess called Paaker, and said: "You go first into the house." Paaker bowed to the ground.
When I was young I was loved by many and admired many women, but not one of them not even my wife, who died young, was more to me than a toy, a plaything; and now when I stretch out my hand for a girl, whose father I might very well be not for her own sake, but simply to serve my purpose and she refuses me, I feel as much disturbed, as much a fool as-as that dealer in love-philters, Paaker."
When Paaker set the cup of water for Nefert on the flat stone and felt for the philter, his soul was so full of desire that there was no room for hatred; still he could not altogether exclude the idea that he would commit a great crime by making use of a magic drink. Before pouring the fateful drops into the water, he would consult the oracle of the ring.
"He instructs the elder pupils of the high-school in grammar and eloquence; he is also an excellent observer of the starry heavens, and a most skilled interpreter of dreams," replied Gagabu. "But here he is again. To whom is Paaker conducting our stammering physician and his assistant?" "To the daughter of the paraschites, who has been run over," answered Pentaur.
Do not take the words too hardly. Your father was a man without an equal, and Rameses cannot forget that we are related to the old royal house. His grandfather, his father, and himself are usurpers, and there is one now living who has a better right to the throne than he has." "The Regent Ani!" exclaimed Paaker decisively.
The ministers of the Gods, the priests, are favorably disposed to us; we have " At this moment there was a commotion in the garden, and a breathless slave rushed in exclaiming "The Regent is at the gate!" Paaker stood in stupid perplexity, but he collected himself with an effort and would have gone, but Katuti detained him. "I will go forward to meet Ani," she said.
"And the handkerchief for the Regent?" asked the little man. "He wishes to speak to you about the matter which you know of with regard to Paaker. What is it?" "Do not ask," replied Nemu, "I ought not to betray it. By Besa, who protects us dwarfs, it is better that thou shouldst never know it." "For to-day I have learned enough that is new to me," retorted Katuti.
We often quarrelled, and had a bad time together, and life became quite unendurable, when about eight weeks since Paaker came back from Thebes, and the king gave him to understand that he approved more of my reports than of his.
Two sparrow-hawks sat huddled up over the door of the cave, out of which came the sharp odor of burning juniper-berries; this was intended to render the various emanations rising from the different strange substances, which were collected and preserved there, innocuous. As Paaker approached the cavern the old woman called out to some one within: "Is the wax cooking?"
Ameni is ready to act, Paaker is to-day collecting his troops, to-morrow he will assist at the feast of the Valley, and the next day he goes to Syria." "He has been with you?" Katuti asked. "He came to the palace on leaving your house," replied Ani, "with glowing cheeks, and resolved to the utmost; though he does not dream that I hold him in my hand."
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