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The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers

CHAPTER XXXI
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I will tell you something more about Isis.

She loved her husband Osiris dearly, as you did your dead husband, and I my husband Mena, but he fell a victim to the cunning of Seth, and she could not tell where to find the body that had been carried away, while you can visit your husband in his grave.

Then Isis went through the land lamenting, and ah! what was to become of Egypt, which received all its fruitfulness from Osiris.

The sacred Nile was dried up, and not a blade of verdure was green on its banks.

The Goddess grieved over this beyond words, and one of her tears fell in the bed of the river, and immediately it began to rise.


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