I had my revenues and armies.
Now everything has gone.

My sons are dead, my women are driven away, my revenues are taken from me, my armies serve another." "At least," suggested Kaku, "you are Pharaoh, and the husband of the most beautiful and the wisest woman in the world." "Pharaoh!" groaned Abi.

"The humblest mummy in the common city vaults is a greater king than I am, and as for the rest----" and he stopped and groaned again.
"What is the matter with your Majesty ?" asked Kaku.
"The matter is that I have fallen under the influence of an evil planet." "The Star of Amen," suggested the astrologer.
"Yes, the Star of Amen, that lovely Terror whom you call my wife.

Man, she is no wife to me.

Listen--there in the harem I went into the chamber where she was, none forbidding me, and found her sitting before her mirror and singing, clothed only in a thin robe of white, and her dark hair--O Kaku, never did you see such hair--which fell almost to the ground.