Uarda; A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tended like a princess, and a leech have a noble to guide him, like the Pharoah himself! I ought to have kept on my three robes!" " The night is warm," said Pentaur. " But Paaker has strange ways with him. Only the day before yesterday I was called to a poor boy whose collar-bone he had simply smashed with his stick. If I had been the princess's horse, I would rather have trodden him down than a poor little girl." " So would I," said Pentaur, laughing, and left the room to request the second prophet Gagabu, who was also the head of the medical staff of the House of Seti, to send the blind pastophorus Teta, with his friend as singer of the litany. CHAPTER IV. Pentaur knew where to seek Gagabu, for he himself had been invited to the banquet which the prophet had prepared in honor of two sages who had lately come to the House of Seti from the university of Chennu.f In an open court, surrounded by gayly-painted wooden pillars, and lighted by many lamps, sat the feasting priests m two long rows on comfortable arm-chairs. Before each stood a little table, and servants were occupied in supplying ' them with the dishes and drinks, which were laid out on a splendid table in the middle of the court. Joints of gazelle,J roast geese and ducks, meat pasties, artichokes, asparagus and other vegetables, and various cakes and sweetmeats were carried to the guests, and their beakers well tilled with the choice wines of which there was never any lack in the lofts of the House of Seti. In the spaces between the guests stood servants with metal bowls, in which they might wash their hands, and towels of fine linen. The Pastophori were an order of priests to which the physicians belonged. f Chennu was situated on a bend of the Nile, not far from the Nubian frontier; it is now ...