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The Ancient Allan

CHAPTER XIII
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Moreover by the law I serve I may speak angrily to no man.

Know then that on learning the truth, since I could love none but you according to the flesh and therefore can never give myself in marriage to another, I sought refuge in the arms of the goddess whom for your sake I had deserted.

She was pleased to receive me, forgetting my treason.

On this very day for the second time I took the oaths which may no more be broken, and that I may dwell where I shall never see you more, Pharaoh here has been pleased, at my request to name me high priestess and prophetess of Isis and to appoint me as a dwelling-place her temple at Amada where I was born far away in Upper Egypt.

Now all is said and done, so farewell." "All is not said and done," I broke out in fury.


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