Your office demands that you should be both brave and circumspect; these characteristics are rarely united; but there are scriveners by hundreds in the temples." "So it seems to me," said Paaker.
Ani looked down meditatively, and continued--"Rameses is fond of comparing you with your father.

That is unfair, for he--who is now with the justified--was without an equal; at once the bravest of heroes and the most skilful of scribes.

You are judged unjustly; and it grieves me all the more that you belong, through your mother, to my poor but royal house.

We will see whether I cannot succeed in putting you in the right place.

For the present you are required in Syria almost as soon as you have got home.