17/34 The gods have at least allowed me to discover a trace which seems calculated to throw light on the events of yesterday; but you yourself must decide whether my hopes have been presumptuous and my suspicions too easily aroused. Remember, however, that throughout, my wish to serve you has been sincere, and that if I have been deceived, my error is pardonable; that nothing is perfectly certain in this world, and every man believes that to be infallible which seems to him the most probable." "You speak well, and remind me of. curse her! there, speak and have done with it! I hear the dogs already in the court." "I was still in Egypt when your embassy came to fetch Nitetis. |