Moreover if I need prophecies, I think it better to turn to Ki and those who make them their life-study.

For me this is a day of deeds, not dreams, and since you refuse my help, and behave as a sick girl lost in fancies, I must see to myself.

As while you live I cannot reign alone or wage war in my own name only, I go to make terms with Amenmeses, who will pay me high for peace." "You go--and do you return, Userti ?" She drew herself to her full height, looking very royal, and answered slowly: "I do not return.

I, the Princess of Egypt, cannot live as the wife of a common man who falls from a throne to set himself upon the earth, and smears his own brow with mud for a uraeus crown.

When your prophecies come true, Seti, and you crawl from your dust, then perhaps we may speak again." "Aye, Userti, but the question is, what shall we say ?" "Meanwhile," she added, as she turned, "I leave you to your chosen counsellors--yonder scribe, whom foolishness, not wisdom, has whitened before his time, and perchance the Hebrew sorceress, who can give you moonbeams to drink from those false lips of hers.