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The Regent had changed color several ti this letter Now he laid it on the table with a shrug of his shoulders, stood up, clasped his hand behind him, and, with his eyes cast ainst one of the pillars which supported the beaht, the less amiable his expression became "A pill sweetened with honey, [Two recipes for pills are found in the papyri, one with honey for woive to women," he muttered to hi's letter through once , and at the sananiirl like any other, and will take good care not to choose a ht be her father Rameses will 'subment and the choice of a wilful child!"

With these words he threw the letter so vehemently on to the table, that it slipped off on to the floor

The ain, while his master threw a ball into a silver bason

Several attendants rushed into the roo to hination against the king, who in his remote camp-tent could fancy he had hest favor When we are plotting against a ard him as an enemy, and if he offers us a rose we believe it to be for the sake, not of the perfuht before the Regent and threw hiround at his feet

Ani ordered the attendants to leave him, and said to the little man "You compelled me to put you in prison Stand up!" The dwarf rose and said, "Be thanked--for ent looked at him in astonishment; but Nemu went on half humbly, half in fun, "I feared for my life, but thou hast not only not shortened it, but hast prolonged it; for in the solitude of the dungeon tirown to hours"

"Keep your wit for the ladies," replied the Regent "Did I not know that you meant well, and acted in accordance with the Lady Katuti's fancy, I would send you to the quarries"