I say that if you continue to thwart the will of Pharaoh, as by the law of Egypt you can do, he will disinherit you and set your cousin Amenmeses in your place, as by the law of Egypt he can do." "I thought it, Userti.

Yet why should I turn my back upon the right over a matter of my private fortunes?
The question is--is it the right ?" She stared at him in amazement, she who never understood Seti and could not dream that he would throw away the greatest throne in all the world to save a subject people, merely because he thought that they should not die.

Still, warned by some instinct, she left the first question unanswered, dealing only with the second.
"It is the right," she said, "for many reasons whereof I need give but one, for in it lie all the others.

The gods of Egypt are the true gods whom we must serve and obey, or perish here and hereafter.

The god of the Israelites is a false god and those who worship him are heretics and by their heresy under sentence of death.