I tell you that I have no magic to give or to withhold," she answered, as one who did not understand or was indifferent, and turned away from him.
Thereon he muttered some curse which I could not catch, bowed to the heap of dust that had been the statue of the god, and vanished away among the pillars of the sanctuary.
"Oho-ho!" laughed Bakenkhonsu.

"Not in vain have I lived to be so very old, for now it seems we have a new god in Egypt, and there stands his prophetess." Merapi came to the prince.
"O high-priest of Amon," she said, "does it please you to let me go, for I am very weary ?".