Vulgar words in Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete (Page 1)
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Pentaur did not contradict him, but said with a smile: "Since he left the school bench, where his school-fellows called him the wild ass on account of his unruliness, he has remained always the same.
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The Gods would punish me if I hated Paaker whose father was dear to me; but the spirits of darkness would possess the old heart in my breast if it were devoid of horror for the covetous and sordid devotee, who would fain buy earthly joys of the Gods with gifts of beasts and wine, as men exchange an ass for a robe, in whose soul seethe dark promptings.
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"Don't chatter, hussy, but make haste," cried Paaker, taking another ring from his money-bag and throwing it into her lap.
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Before the sun had risen the next morning, Nemu got himself ferried over the Nile, with the small white ass which Mena's deceased father had given him many years before.
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"No, my lord," replied Nemu, "on an ass; but a demon entered into the beast, and has struck it with sickness.
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When Nemu, riding on an ass this time, reached home, he found neither his mistress nor Nefert within.
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You ask why?--Hatasu is Ani's ancestress, blockhead!"
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He had escaped wounded from the battle at Kadesh, and in terrible pain he had succeeded, by the help of an ass which he had purchased from a peasant, in reaching by paths known to hardly any one but himself, the cave where he had previously left his brother.