Hundreds of slaves hurried to and fro loaded with costly dishes.

Large vessels of richly wrought gold and silver were brought into the hall on wheels, and set on the side-boards.

Children were perched in the shells and lotus-flowers that hung from the painted rafters; and from between the pillars, that were hung with cloudy transparent tissues, they threw roses and violets down on the company.
The sounds of harps and songs issued from concealed rooms, and from an altar, six ells high, in the middle of the hall, clouds of incense were wafted into space.
The king-one of whose titles was "Son of the Sun,"-- was as radiant as the sun himself.

His children were once more around him, Mena was his cupbearer as in former times, and all that was best and noblest in the land was gathered round him to rejoice with him in his triumph and his return.

Opposite to him sat the ladies, and exactly in front of him, a delight to his eyes, Bent-Anat and Nefert.