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Moon of Israel

CHAPTER X
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Farewell, Seti, once a prince and my husband." "Farewell, Userti, who, I fear, must still remain my sister." Then he watched her go, and turning to me, said: "To-day, Ana, I have lost both a crown and a wife, yet strange to tell I do not know which of these calamities grieves me least.

Yet it is time that fortune turned.

Or mayhap all the evils are not done.

Would you not go also, Ana?
Although she gibes at you in her anger, the Princess thinks well of you, and would keep you in her service.

Remember, whoever falls in Egypt, she will be great till the last." "Oh! Prince," I answered, "have I not borne enough to-day that you must add insult to my load, you with whom I broke the cup and swore the oath ?" "What!" he laughed.


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