[I.N.R.I. by Peter Rosegger]@TWC D-Link bookI.N.R.I. CHAPTER VII 4/10
Pharaoh was ill-humoured and impatient, neither fan nor fanning was right, and when the boy left off that was not right either. Then Jesus said suddenly: "Pharaoh, you are sick." The king stared at him in astonishment.
A page dare to open his mouth and speak to the Son of Light! When, however, he saw the sad, sincere expression of sympathy in the boy's countenance ho became calmer, and said; "Yes, my boy, I am sick." "King," said Jesus, "I know what is the matter with you." "You know!" "You keep shadows within and light without.
Reverse it." Directly the boy had said that Pharaoh got up, thinner and taller than he usually appeared to be, and haughtily pointed to the door, an angry light in his eyes. The boy went out quietly, and did not look back. But his words were not forgotten.
In the noise and tumult of the daytime Pharaoh did not hear them; in the night, when all the brilliance was extinguished and only the miserable and unhappy waked, he heard softly echoed from wall to wall of his chamber, "Reverse it! Bring the light inside!" Shortly before that time Jesus had discovered an aged scholar who dwelt outside the gate of Thebes, in a vaulted cave at the foot of the Pyramid.
He would have nothing to do with any living thing except a goat of the desert which furnished him with milk.
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