Let them wait till another day.

Knave, would you work me to death, who have never known an hour's rest or peace since the happy time when I ruled as Prince of Memphis ?" "Lord," answered Kaku, bowing humbly, "weary or no you must receive them, for so it has been decreed by her Majesty the Queen, whose command may not be broken." "The Queen!" exclaimed Abi in a low voice, rolling his hollow eyes around him as though in fear.

"Oh, Kaku, would that I had never beheld the Queen.

I tell you that she is not a woman, as indeed you know well, but a fiend with a heart of ice, and the venomous cunning of a snake.

I am called Pharaoh, yet am but her puppet to carry out her decrees.