[Moon of Israel by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookMoon of Israel CHAPTER VI 14/28
She ran a few steps, then stumbled and sank down with a little moan of pain.
In an instant we were at her side.
She stared at us affrighted, for who we were she could not see because of the wide hoods of our common cloaks that made us look like midnight thieves, or slave-dealing Bedouin. "Oh! Sirs," she babbled, "harm me not.
I have nothing of value on me save this amulet." "Who are you and what do you here ?" asked the Prince disguising his voice. "Sirs, I am Merapi, the daughter of Nathan the Levite, he whom the accursed Egyptian captain, Khuaka, murdered at Tanis." "How do you dare to call the Egyptians accursed ?" asked Seti in tones made gruff to hide his laughter. "Oh! Sirs, because they are--I mean because I thought you were Arabs who hate them, as we do.
At least this Egyptian was accursed, for the high Prince Seti, Pharaoh's heir, caused him to be beheaded for that crime." "And do you hate the high Prince Seti, Pharaoh's heir, and call him accursed ?" She hesitated, then in a doubtful voice said: "No, I do not hate him." "Why not, seeing that you hate the Egyptians of whom he is one of the first and therefore twice worthy of hatred, being the son of your oppressor, Pharaoh ?" "Because, although I have tried my best, I cannot.
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