[Morning Star by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookMorning Star CHAPTER XIII 14/16
Well, since you desire to know, you shall learn, and now.
Look on me, wretched Man, whom men name my husband.
Look on me, accursed Slave, whom Amen has given into my hand to punish here upon the earth, until you pass to his yonder in the Under-world." He looked up, and Kaku looked also, because he could not help it, but what they saw they never told.
Only they fell down upon their faces, both of them, and groaned; beating the floor with their foreheads. At length the icy terror seemed to be lifted from their hearts, and they dared to glance up again, and saw that she was as she had been, a most royal and lovely woman, but no more. "What are you ?" gasped Abi.
"The goddess Sekhet in the flesh, or Isis, Queen of Death, or but dead Tua's ghost sent here for vengeance ?" "All of them, or none of them, as you will, though, Man, it is true that I am sent here for vengeance.
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