Soon I shall be old and she will be fat and ugly, and how can one love then?
Get well quickly, Ana, for I wish you to help me with my report to Pharaoh.

I shall tell him that I think these Israelites are much oppressed and that he should make them amends and let them go." "What will Pharaoh say to that after they have just tried to kill his heir ?" "I think Pharaoh will be angry, and so will the people of Egypt, who do not reason well.

He will not see that, believing what they do, Laban and his band were right to try to kill me who, however unwittingly, desecrated the sanctuary of their god.

Had they done otherwise they would have been no good Hebrews, and for my part I cannot bear them malice.

Yet all Egypt is afire about this business and cries out that the Israelites should be destroyed." "It seems to me, Prince, that whatever may be the case with Ki's second prophecy, his third is in the way of fulfilment--namely that this journey to Goshen may cause you to risk your throne." He shrugged his shoulders and answered: "Not even for that, Ana, will I say to Pharaoh what is not in my mind.
But let that matter be till you are stronger." "What chanced at the end of the fight, Prince, and how came I here ?" "The guard killed most of the Hebrews who remained alive.