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Another, barely older than fourteen, had mounted the side of the boat, and steadying himself by the shoulder of a young lord, gazed ahead at the group in the bow of Senci's boat. "By the horns of Isis," he whispered in disgust, "the most of them are babes!" The robust noble turned his head and jeered good-naturedly under his breath. "Mark the infant sneering at the buds. But be of cheer.
A barge, judiciously darkened, emerged into the circle of faint radiance about Senci's boat. There were probably a dozen Theban nobles of various ages grouped in attitudes of hushed expectancy in the bow. One robust peer, with a boat-hook in his hand, leaned over the prow.
The hesitation between Senci's invitation and his answer was not noticeable. He put the instrument out of his reach, tossing it on a cushion a little distance away. "Not so reluctant," he said, turning his face toward the lady, "as unready. I have exhausted my trove of songs for this self-same company, wherefore they will not listen to reiteration, which is ever insipid."
Below stood Seti, on tiptoe, his hands upstretched against the tall hull. "O, I can not reach thee," he was crying. Kenkenes caught up the trembling, blushing, repentant girl and lowered her plump into the prince's eager arms. When Kenkenes saw her an hour later, he lifted her out of her curricle before the portals of Senci's house. "What did I tell thee?" he said softly.
In the early morning of the next day after the rout at Senci's, Kenkenes wandered restlessly about the inner court of his father's house. He had slept but little the preceding night, and now, dizzy and irritable, the freshness of the morning did not invigorate him and the haunting perplexities were with him still.
Then, without further counsel with the murket, he went silently and unseen to the portal of Senci's house. After a long time, for her household had been asleep, he was admitted, and the Lady Senci, perplexed and surprised, joined him in the chamber of guests.
Never was a man worth one of them." He kissed her again and set her inside Senci's house. But one remained now of the procession he had escorted from the river. This was the Lady Ta-meri's litter, and his own chariot stood ahead of it. She had lifted the curtains and was piling the opposite seat with cushions in a manner unmistakably inviting. He hesitated a moment.
After some effort he aroused a crew of oarsmen, procured a boat, and continued at once to Thebes. Khu-aten Tel-el-Amarna. At sunset on the day after the festivities at the Lady Senci's, Hotep deserted his palace duties and came to the house of Mentu.
At that moment a gang-plank was run across from the broad flat stern of the nomarch's boat to the prow of Senci's, a carpet was spread on it, and Ta-meri, with little shrieks and tottering steps, came across it. Kenkenes put out his arms to her and lifted her down when she arrived. "Wonder brought me," she cried. "I dreamed I saw thee kiss a maiden thrice and I came to see if it were true."
"Nay," he observed, as he bent over Senci's hand, "never were two maids alike, and I shall not strive to make them so." "Thy father hath most graciously kept his word in sending us a protector," Senci continued, "My nosegay of beauties drooped last night when they arrived from On with my brother sick, aboard. They feared they must stop with me in Memphis for want of a man."
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