But it seems to me that you have other and more secret reasons for refusing my brotherly proposal.

If that is the case, I am sorry for you.

However, for the present, you can depart, but after the war I will hear no remonstrances.

You know me." "Perhaps after the war I may ask for the very thing, which I am refusing now--but never for Roxana! It is just as unwise to try to make a man happy by force as it is wicked to compel him to be unhappy, and I thank you for granting my request." "Don't try my powers of yielding too often!--How happy you look! I really believe you are in love with some one woman by whose side all the others have lost their charms." Bartja blushed to his temples, and seizing his brother's hand, exclaimed: "Ask no further now, accept my thanks once more, and farewell.

May I bid Nitetis farewell too, when I have taken leave of our mother and Atossa ?" Cambyses bit his lip, looked searchingly into Bartja's face, and finding that the boy grew uneasy under his glance, exclaimed abruptly and angrily: "Your first business is to hasten to the Tapuri.