Slow Signal Fade ebooks

"
"Talk!" he said contemptuously, "how can stones talk?"
"I do not know. I think it is their spirits that talk, telling me
stories which happened before I was born and that shall happen after
I am dead, yes, and after _they_ seem to be dead. Now be silent--I say
that they talk to me--it is enough."
"For me it would be more than enough," said the boy, "but then I am not
called Child of Amen, who only worship Menthu, God of War."

When Rames was seven years of age, every morning he was taken to school
in the temple, where the priests taught him to write with pens of reed
upon tablets of wood, and told him more about the gods of Egypt than he
ever wanted to hear again. During these hours, except when she was being
instructed by the great ladies of the Court, or by high-priestesses,
Tua was left solitary, since by the command of Pharaoh no other children
were allowed to play with her, perhaps because there were none in the
temple of her age whose birth was noble.
Once when he came back from his school in the evening Rames asked her
if she had not been lonely without him.


Pages:
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65