The unusual hour and the retinue that followed her--" "Is the daughter of Pharaoh sick ?" asked the prelate.
"No, father.

She is well--even to wantonness, since--wishing to prove the swiftness of her horses--she ran over the daughter of the paraschites Pinem.

Noble-hearted as she is, she herself carried the sorely-wounded girl to her house." "She entered the dwelling of the unclean." "Thou hast said." "And she now asks to be purified ?" "I thought I might venture to absolve her, father, for the purest humanity led her to the act, which was no doubt a breach of discipline, but--" "But," asked the high-priest in a grave voice and he raised his eyes which he had hitherto on the ground.
"But," said the young priest, and now his eyes fell, "which can surely be no crime.

When Ra--[The Egyptian Sun-god.]--in his golden bark sails across the heavens, his light falls as freely and as bountifully on the hut of the despised poor as on the Palace of the Pharaohs; and shall the tender human heart withhold its pure light--which is benevolence--from the wretched, only because they are base ?" "It is the poet Pentaur that speaks," said the prelate, "and not the priest to whom the privilege was given to be initiated into the highest grade of the sages, and whom I call my brother and my equal.

I have no advantage over you, young man, but perishable learning, which the past has won for you as much as for me--nothing but certain perceptions and experiences that offer nothing new, to the world, but teach us, indeed, that it is our part to maintain all that is ancient in living efficacy and practice.