I will not hear one hard word about him to-day." "Very well! he has graciously and mercifully kept us from the feast," said Rameri ironically, and he bowed low in the direction of the Necropolis, "and you are unclean.

Do not enter the tombs and the temples on my account; let us stay outside among the people.

The roads over there are not so very sensitive; paraschites and other unclean folks pass over them every day.

Be sensible, Bent-Anat, and come.

We will disguise ourselves; I will conduct you; I will lay the garlands in the tombs, we will pray together outside, we will see the sacred procession and the feats of the magicians, and hear the festive discourse.