Now shall I speak who alone have knowledge, or will you seek another counsellor ?" "Speak on," answered Abi sullenly, "we are fish in the same net, and share each other's fortune to the end, whether it be Set's gridiron or fat Egypt's pleasure pond.

Fear not, what I have promised you shall have while it is mine to give." "Just now you promised rods," remarked Kaku, making a wry face and replacing the remains of his wig upon his bald head, "but let that pass.
Now as to this dream of yours, I find its meaning good.

How did Pharaoh come to you?
Not as a living spirit, but in the fashion of a dead man, and who cares for dead men ?" "I do, for one, when they cut my mouth with broken crystals," interrupted Merytra, who was bathing her wounds in a basin of water.
"Would that they had cut your tongue instead of your lips, Woman," snarled Abi.

"Continue, Kaku, and heed her not." "And what was his message ?" went on the magician.

"Why, that you shall marry the Majesty of Egypt, and rule in her right and sit in the seat of kings.