For his father's noble pride he has overbearing haughtiness; for kindly severity, rude harshness; for dignity, conceit; for perseverance, obstinacy.

Devout he is, and we profit by his gifts.
The treasurer may rejoice over them, and the dates off a crooked tree taste as well as those off a straight one.

But if I were the Divinity I should prize them no higher than a hoopoe's crest; for He, who sees into the heart of the giver-alas! what does he see! Storms and darkness are of the dominion of Seth, and in there--in there--" and the old man struck his broad breast "all is wrath and tumult, and there is not a gleam of the calm blue heaven of Ra, that shines soft and pure in the soul of the pious; no, not a spot as large as this wheaten-cake." "Hast thou then sounded to the depths of his soul ?" asked the haruspex.
"As this beaker!" exclaimed Gagabu, and he touched the rim of an empty drinking-vessel.

"For fifteen years without ceasing.

The man has been of service to us, is so still, and will continue to be.