The Emperor — Volume 02 by Georg Ebers
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and hardly, with such bitter contempt--"
"He never is really violent, but wrath seems to eat him inwardly, and I have rarely seen him so angry as he was that time." "But if he had only settled the account with me on the spot! but my father was by, and hot words fell like rain, and my mother added her share, and from that time there has been utter hostility between our little house and you up here. What hurt me most was that you and your sister were forbidden to come to see us and to play with me." "That has spoilt many pleasant hours for me, too." "It was nice when we used to dress up in my father's theatrical finery and cloaks." "And when you made us dolls out of clay.". "Or when we performed the Olympian games." "I was always the teacher when we played at school with our little brothers and sisters." "Arsinoe gave you most trouble." "Oh! and what fun when we went fishing!" "And when we brought home the fishes and mother gave us meal and raisins to cook them." |
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