Then I stood before the strong, stout corpse of the prophet Rui, who died of apoplexy, and I remembered the honor and the riches that he had enjoyed on earth, and that he at least for a time had known happiness and ease.

And as soon as I was alone, I slipped my hand into the bag, and changed the sheep's heart for his.
"Perhaps I am doubly guilty for playing such an accursed trick with the heart of a high-priest; but Rui's body will be hung round with a hundred amulets, Scarabaei [Imitations of the sacred beetle Scarabaeus made of various materials were frequently put into the mummies in the place of the heart.

Large specimens have often the 26th, 30th, and 64th chapters of the Book of the Dead engraved on them, as they treat of the heart.] will be placed over his heart, and holy oil and sacred sentences will preserve him from all the fiends on his road to Amenti,--[Underworld]--while no one will devote helping talismans to the poor.

And then! thou hast sworn, in that world, in the hall of judgment, to take my guilt on thyself." Nebsecht gave the old man his hand.
"That I will," said he, "and I should have chosen as you did.

Now take this draught, divide it in four parts, and give it to Uarda for four evenings following.