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The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Author:Boleslaw Prus General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Subjects: Egypt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Mill... more »ion-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II OTRAIGHTWAY his worthiness Herhor directed his adju- wj tant who carried the mace to take charge of the vanguard in place of Eunana. Then he commanded that the military engines for hurling great stones leave the road, and that the Greek soldiers facilitate passage for those engines in difficult places. All vehicles and litters of staff-officers were to move in the rear. When Herhor issued commands, the adjutant bearing the fan approached Pentuer and asked, -- '' Will it be possible to go by this highway again ? " "Why not?" answered the young priest. "But since two sacred beetles have barred the way now, we must not go farther; some misfortune might happen." "As it is, a misfortune has happened. Or hast thou not noticed that Prince Rameses is angry at the minister? and our lord is not forgetful." " It is not the prince who is offended with our lord, but our lord with the prince, and he has reproached him. He has done well; for it seems to the young prince, at present, that he is to be a second Menes." " Or a Rameses the Great," put in the adjutant. " Rameses the Great obeyed the gods; for this cause there are inscriptions praising him in all the temples. But Menes, the first pharaoh of Egypt, was a destroyer of order, and thanks only to the fatherly kindness of the priests that his name is still remembered, -- though I would not give one brass uten on this, that the mummy of Menes exists." " My Pentuer," added the adjutant, " thou art a sage, hence knowest that it is all one to us whether we have ten lords or eleven." "...« less