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Next appeared the Prince of Kesh himself, a short, stout,
broad-shouldered young man, thick-featured, heavy-faced, and having
large, rolling eyes. He was clad in festal garments, and hung about with
heavy chains of gold fastened with clasps of glittering stones,
while from his crisp, black hair rose a tall plume of nodding ostrich
feathers. Fan bearers walked beside him, and the train of his long cloak
was borne by two black and hideous dwarfs, full-grown men but no taller
than a child of eight.
With one swift glance, while he was yet far away, Tua studied the man
from head to foot, and hated him as she had never hated anyone before.
Then she looked over his head, as from her raised seat upon the dais she
was able to do, and saw that behind him came a second guard of picked
Egyptian soldiers, and that in command of them, simply clad in his
scaled armour of bronze, and wearing upon his thigh the golden-handled
sword that Pharaoh had given him, was none other than the young Count
Rames, her playmate and foster-brother, the man whom her heart loved.


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