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CHAPTER VI
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Boy, you shall come to my court of your own free will, you shall share the education and instruction of the children of my nobles; only sometimes I shall have you with me, you fine young gazelle.

Now go home with your father.
To-morrow I will send and ask, mark you--only ask, not command.

He who is tired of plundered booty knows how to value a free gift.

You hear what I say ?" When the crowd heard Pharaoh speak to these poor people with such unwonted kindness, the like of which they had never heard before, they uttered mad shouts of joy.

As the king proceeded on his way in his two-wheeled golden chariot, a long array of soldiers, cymbal players, and dancing girls following behind, the palm-groves resounded with the cries of the people.


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