If ill befalls him I
think that at the last I may learn to hate you, whom from the first I
cherished."
Now at the thought that she might bring death to Rames also, Tua's tears
began to gather, and her voice choked in her throat.
"Say not such evil-omened words," she sobbed, "since you know well that
if he is taken hence for whose sake I endure all these things, then I
must follow him over the edge of the world. Moreover, you are unjust.
Did I slay the Prince of Kesh, or was it another?"
"Another, Queen, but for your sake."
"And would you have had me wed Abi the hog, the murderer of my father,
and of your lord? Again, was it I who but now showed this barbarian
chief a shadow in the water, or was it Asti the witch, Asti the
prophetess of Amen? Lastly, will the man die, if die he must, because he
loves me, which, being a woman I can forgive him, or because he laid the
hands of violence upon me to force me to be his queen or mistress, which
I forgive him not? Oh! Asti, you know well I am not as other women are.
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