Then he turned from him saying: "Keep thy money; we are quits.

That is if the child gets well," he added humbly.
"She is already half cured," stammered Nebsecht.

"But why will you--why won't you accept--" "Because till to day I have never begged nor borrowed," said the paraschites, "and I will not begin in my old age.

Life for life.

But what I have done this day not Rameses with all his treasure could repay." Nebsecht looked down, and knew not how to answer the old man.
His wife now came out; she set a bowl of lentils that she had hastily warmed before the two men, with radishes and onions, [Radishes, onions, and garlic were the hors-d'oeuvre of an Egyptian dinner.