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Sometimes thunder was heard in the temple, and at night, above the pylons, there was lightning. This was a sign that the god had heard some one's prayers, or was conversing with the priesthood. When, after the ending of the solemnity, the three dignitaries Sem, Mefres, and Mentezufis met for consultation, the position had become clearer.
"There iss no need. I will arrange it, and you will tek your meals in here just as usual. Which room woult you like in the big house?" "I'll go up and have a look round. Does it make any difference to you which I choose? I'd like one with a balcony if it's all the same to you." "It iss all the sem, and I will get it ready for you as soon ass I hear from Mrs. Lee.
"Oh," she resumed, as soon as she could be heard, "white folks is werry kine. Dey wants us to b'lieb we happy dey wants to b'lieb we is. W'y, you know, dey 'bleeged to b'lieb it fo' dey own cyumfut. 'Tis de sem weh wid de preache's; dey buil' we ow own sep'ate meet'n-houses; dey b'liebs us lak it de bess, an' dey knows dey lak it de bess." The laugh at this was mostly her own.
And since Osochar had no considerable income, a suspicion rose that that priest had overheard the conversation of Beroes with the Egyptian priests, and had sold to Phoenicians, criminally, the secret of the treaty, and received a great estate from them. When he heard this, the high priest Sem added,
This thought so tortured him that under its influence he fell upon a daring plan. Meeting the high priest Sem, he said to him, "Worthiness, hast Thou heard the reports about our sovereign?" "The pharaoh is young, hence various scandals may circulate concerning him," replied Sem, looking strangely at Tutmosis.
As we walked, I spoke of the good days at "the Sem," of our classmates, and their future, and this led me to the announcement of my own plans. "I shall teach," I said. "I hope to be able to work into a professorship in literature some day. What do you intend to do?" "I shall go on with my studies for a while," she replied. "I may go to some eastern college for a few years."
Gre," said Citizen Depeau. "It is a deesh in that country. But to beesness, citizens, we embark on glorious enterprise. The King and Queen of France, she pay for her treason with their haids, and we must be prepare' for do the sem." "Ha," exclaimed the Sieur de St. Gre, "the Citizen Quartermaster will lose his provision before his haid."
The Italian dramatist Sem Benelli put the matter tersely: "The collapse of Austria transforms itself therefore into a play of words, so much so that our people, who are much more precise because they languished under the Austrian yoke and the Austrian scourge, never call the Austrians by this name; they call them always Croatians, knowing well that the Croatians and the Slavs who constituted Austria were our fiercest taskmasters and most cruel executioners.
Sarah's hand could not clasp both legs, on which, moreover, were traces of large fingers. After this explanation Mefres, in company with the high priest Sem, went to Sarah in the prison, and implored her by all the gods of Egypt and of foreign lands to declare that she was not guilty of the death of the child, and to describe the person of the murderer.
The question merely is, Which nation will be the first to inoculate the dreamy sons of Sem with the spirit and blood of Japhet? It seems that Central Asia will form the rallying-ground for the last efforts of the Titans to unify their power, as it was thence that the power of God first dispersed them. A glance at the rest of the world as witnessing the same astonishing spectacle, and we pass on.
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