If I never find my uncle again I have no one on earth to care for me but you; but I want no other, for you are my one and only hope, and to live for you and with you is enough.

Only you must never leave me or I shall die! But you never can, for you told me that my soul was dearer to you than your own life; and so long as I have you and your love I shall grow better and better every day; but if you ever let me be parted from you I shall be utterly lost.

Yes, understand that once for all--ruined and lost, body and soul!--I do not know what it is that terrifies me, but do let us go on, away from this house.

Suppose your mother were to see us!" He did as she wished and tried to soothe her, praising his mother's virtues with the affectionate blindness of a son; but she only half listened to his eulogy, for, as they approached Rhacotis the throng grew denser, they had no opportunities for conversation, they could think of nothing but battling their way through the crowd; still, they were happy.
[The quarter of the city inhabited by the Egyptians.

It was the old town close to which Alexander the Great built his splendid new city.] They thus got to the street of the Sun--one of the main arteries of the city cutting the Canopic way at right angles--and they went down it towards the Gate of Helios in the south wall.