[The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers CHAPTER XII 14/16
It is worth while to get him out of the way. The charioteer stands close to the Pharaoh, and the noose that is flung at one may easily fall round the neck of the other too.
Make the Mohar your ally, and it may easily happen that your rat-bites may be paid for with mortal wounds, and Rameses who, if you marched against him openly, might blow you to the ground, may be hit by a lance thrown from an ambush.
When the throne is clear, the weak legs of the Regent may succeed in clambering up to it with the help of the priests.
Here you sit-open-mouthed; and I have told you nothing that you might not have found out for yourself." "You are a perfect cask of wisdom!" exclaimed the dwarf. "And now you will go away," said Hekt, "and reveal your schemes to your mistress and the Regent, and they will be astonished at your cleverness. To-day you still know that I have shown you what you have to do; to-morrow you will have forgotten it; and the day after to-morrow you will believe yourself possessed by the inspiration of the nine great Gods.
I know that; but I cannot give anything for nothing.
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