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So I doubt not he can hold his own at court by prudence and strategy." Meanwhile Ta-meri, in the depths of her chair, gazed at the pair resentfully. They had grown interested in weighty things and had seemingly forgotten her. So she sighed and bethought her how to punish them. "What a relief it will be when the Pharaoh returns to Memphis!" she murmured in the pause that now followed.
Ta-meri gathered up the stakes and Nechutes, collecting the dice, went to find her a seat. But while he was gone, she wandered over to Kenkenes and leaned on the back of his chair. "Let me give thee a truth that seemeth to deny itself in the expression," Io said, turning so that she faced the young artist. "Say on," he replied, bending over her.
Io asked shyly. "Now," Senci cried, "which of ye will say 'aye' or 'nay' to that!" Ta-meri retreated protesting to the prow again, but the gang-plank had been withdrawn. An army of slaves were breaking up the bridges of boats. The oars of the nomarch's barge rose and fell and the vessel bore away. Ta-meri cried out again when she saw it depart but she made no effort to stay it.
He took Io's hands, which were clasped across his knee, and rising, gave the chair to Ta-meri. He found a taboret for himself, and as he put it down at her feet, he saw Nechutes fling himself into a chair and scowl blackly at the nomarch's daughter. Kenkenes sighed and interested himself in the babble that went on about him.
He has summoned the shuddering Pantheon, to hear him vow eternal unfealty to thee, Ta-meri and lo! while they listened he begged their most potent charm to hold thee to him still. Poor Nechutes!" "Thou dost treat it lightly," she reproached him, her eyes veiled, "but it is of serious import to to Nechutes." "Nay, I shall hold my tongue.
Is there anything further?" "Of a truth, dost thou not know? Nay, then, far be it from me to tell thee anything." She passed round them and started to go on. In a few paces, Nechutes overtook her. "Give us thy meaning, Ta-user," he said earnestly. "Kenkenes was near to me to Ta-meri. What knowest thou?" "The court buzzes with it. Strange indeed that ye heard it not.
The lady started and flung a conscience-stricken glance at the scowling cup-bearer. And while her face was turned, Kenkenes departed like a shadow. But the portals of the nomarch's house had hardly closed behind him before he demanded of himself, impatiently, why he had made Nechutes' peace, why he kept the cup-bearer for ever between himself and Ta-meri.
Ta-meri cried, tapping him on the head. "You did not tell me that." The surprised delight of Kenkenes was not so bewildering as to blind him to the reason why Nechutes had withheld this news from Ta-meri. The blunt Egyptian was not anxious to speed his rival's cause. "Does my father know of this?" he asked. "I doubt not.
The irrepressible Menes observed to Io in one of his characteristic undertones, but so that all the company heard it: "What makes us surly to-night? Look at Kenkenes; I think he is in love! What aileth thee, sweet Io? Hast lost much to that gambling pair Ta-meri and Nechutes? And behold thy fellows! What a sulky lot! I am the most cheerful spirit among us."
"But he will not remain here long," Nechutes went on. "He goes to Tanis to be near the scene of the Israelitish unrest." "Alas, Ta-meri, and wilt thou droop again?" Kenkenes asked. "I fear," she assented with a little sigh. Then, after a pause, she asked: "Does the murket follow the court?" Kenkenes shook his head. "Not when the Pharaoh travels.
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