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Updated: June 13, 2025
He had given himself out to Uarda to be a noble youth of Bent-Anat's train, and, as one falsehood usually entails another, in answer to her questions he had given her false information as to his parents and his life. Had evil more power over him in this unclean spot than in the House of Seti, and at his father's?
Uarda saw that something unusual agitated him; she spoke to him kindly, saying that if he wished to speak to her alone he need not be afraid of Rameri, for he was her best friend. "But it does not concern you and me," replied the child, "but the good, holy father Pentaur, who was so kind to me, and who saved your life." "I am a great friend of Pentaur," said the prince. "Is it not true, Uarda?
Uarda knelt down by his side, looked in his face, and said: "He is clever and knows everything, but how silly he looks now! I will wake him." She pulled a blade of grass out of the heap on which he was lying, and saucily tickled his nose. Nebsecht raised himself, sneezed, but fell back asleep again; Uarda laughed out with her clear silvery tones.
Nefert was almost fainting with fear and excitement. The two servants, who had kept near them, knit their hands together, and thus carried her in advance of the princess. Not one of them spoke a word, not even Rameri, who could not forget Uarda, and the look of gratitude she bid sent after him. Once only Bent-Anat said: "The hovel is burnt down. Where will the poor souls sleep to-night?"
The leeches had treated Uarda with judgment, for under the influence of the bath she recovered her senses; when she had been dressed again in fresh garments and refreshed by the essences and medicines which they gave her to inhale and to drink, she was led back into Nefert's tent, where Mena, who had never before seen her, was astonished at her peculiar and touching beauty.
"Now 'Uarda will love you with all her heart?" and she said it after him in broken accents that sounded so sweet and so heart-felt, that the old man clasped her to his breast. Tears of emotion stood in Nefert's eyes, and when Uarda flung herself into her arms she said: "The forlorn swan has found its kindred, the floating leaf has reached the shore, and must be happy now!"
Swear to me that you will require this of him when you have saved him." "In God's name what is happening?" cried Uarda. "Swear that you will provide for my burial," said the old woman. "I swear it!" cried the girl. "But for God's sake " "Katuti, Paaker, and Nemu are gone to set fire to the palace when Rameses is sleeping, in three places. Do you hear, Kaschta!
Goodness is the most beautiful attribute of the divine, and you have always been well-disposed towards great and small; but I ask you, have you ever before felt so irresistibly impelled to pour out an ocean of goodness on another being, whether for Uarda you would not more joyfully and more self-forgetfully sacrifice all that you have, and all that you are, than to father and mother and your oldest friend?"
But you shall be the rose-garland to grace me. Men who can be compared to flowers disgust me!" The prince rose, and offered Uarda his hand. "You have a strong hand," said the girl. "You will be a noble man, and work for good and great ends; only look, my fingers are quite red with being held so tightly. But they too are not quite useless.
A year after the burning of the pavilion at Pelusium Rameri sailed to the land of the Danaids, was married to Uarda, and then remained in his wife's native country, where, after the death of her grandfather, he ruled over many islands of the Mediterranean and became the founder of a great and famous race.
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