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The Ancient Allan

CHAPTER XI
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When I had done, he said, "So you gave the name of Amada to the Great King, did you?
Well, you could have done nothing else if you wished to go on living, and therefore cannot be blamed.

Yet before all is finished I think it will bring you into trouble, Shabaka, since among many gifts, the gods did not give that of reason to women.

If so, bear it, since it is better to have trouble and be alive than to have none and be dead, that is, for those whose work is still to do in the world.

And you, or rather Bes, stole the White Signet of signets of which, although it is so simple and ancient, there is not the like for power in the whole world.

That was well done since it will be useful for a while.


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