[The Bride of the Nile Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Bride of the Nile Complete CHAPTER XIII 9/17
Go away; go wherever you please! If I find you under this roof to-morrow at noon, you thankless, wicked girl, I will have you turned out into the streets by the guard.
I hate you--for once I will ease my poor, tormented heart--I loathe you; your very existence is an offence to me and brings misfortune on me and on all of us; and besides--besides, I should prefer to keep the emeralds we have left." This last and cruelest taunt, which she had brought out against her better feelings, seemed to have relieved her soul of a hundred-weight of care; she drew a deep breath, and turning to Philippus, went on far more quietly and rationally: "As for you, Philip, my husband needs you.
You know well what we have offered you and you know George's liberal hand.
Perhaps you will think better of it, and will learn to perceive..." "I!..." said the leech with a lofty smile.
"Do you really know me so little? Your husband, I am ready to admit, stands high in my esteem, and when he wants me he will no doubt send for me.
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