You have driven me out of the world in which you live, and so I made a world for myself in this hut.
I do not belong to you, and if I forget it, you drive me out as an intruder--nay as a wolf, who breaks into your fold; but you belong just as little to me, only when you play the wolf and fall upon me, I must bear it!" "The princess came to your hut as a suppliant, and with the wish of doing you some good," said Pentaur.
"May the avenging Gods reckon it to her, when they visit on her the crimes of her father against me! Perhaps it may bring me to prison, but it must come out.

Seven sons were mine, and Rameses took them all from me and sent them to death; the child of the youngest, this girl, the light of my eyes, his daughter has brought to her death.

Three of my boys the king left to die of thirst by the Tenat, [Literally the "cutting" which, under Seti I., the father of Rameses, was the first Suez Canal; a representation of it is found on the northern outer wall of the temple of Karnak.

It followed nearly the same direction as the Fresh-water canal of Lesseps, and fertilized the land of Goshen.] which is to join the Nile to the Red Sea, three were killed by the Ethiopians, and the last, the star of my hopes, by this time is eaten by the hyaenas of the north." At these words the old woman, in whose lap the head of the girl rested, broke out into a loud cry, in which she was joined by all the other women.
The sufferer started up frightened, and opened her eyes.
"For whom are you wailing ?" she asked feebly.

"For your poor father," said the old woman.
The girl smiled like a child who detects some well-meant deceit, and said: "Was not my father here, with you?
He is here, in Thebes, and looked at me, and kissed me, and said that he is bringing home plunder, and that a good time is coming for you.