See, you are a
multitude and my legions are far away, and I--I am alone, one lamb among
the jackals, thousands and thousands of jackals who for a long while
have been hungry. How, then, shall I match myself against you?"
"You cannot," shouted a wild-eyed spokesman. "Come down, lamb, and kneel
before the lion, Abi, or we, the jackals, will rend you. We will not
acknowledge you, we who are of the fierce Hyksos blood. While the
obelisks stand that were set up by the great Hyksos Pharaoh whose
descendant was Abi's mother, while the obelisks stand that are set there
for all eternity, we will not acknowledge you. Come down and take your
place in our lord's harem, O Pharaoh's bastard daughter."
"Ah!" Tua repeated after him, "while the obelisks stand that the Hyksos
thief set up you will not acknowledge me, Pharaoh's bastard daughter!"
Then she paused and seemed to grow disturbed; she sighed, wrung her
hands a little, and said in a choking voice:
"I am but one woman alone among you. My father, Pharaoh, is dead, and
you bid me lay down my rank and henceforth rule only through him who
trapped Pharaoh and brought him to his end.
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