Therefore, although I was dear to her, as a brother would have been had she had one, and she swore that she had never even thought of another man, she refused so much as to think of marrying who dreamed only of the heavenly perfections of the lady Isis." "Ump!" said Bes.

"We Ethiopians have Priestesses of the Grasshopper, or the Grasshopper's wife, but they do not think of her like that.

I hope that one day something stronger than herself will not cause the lady Amada to break her vows to the heavenly Isis.

Only then, perhaps, it may be for the sake of another man who did not go off to the East on account of such fool's talk.

But here is a village and the horses are spent.