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 Typho seize him!—Arouse the household. Have him hither with all homage.

[To indicating the door at the back] A plague on the marplot! Yet it were well if thou—

Oh, let me bide; I, too, would hear the news.

'Tis nought. [Anxiously] The gods grant it be nought.

The Lord Imhotep, Lord Chief Butler of the Pharaoh, the King of Kings!

The presence of my lord sheddeth radiance through my halls.

Friend, I come not of mine own will—

Let thy servant hear—

[With great solemnity] This from Usertesen, the Pharaoh, the King of the North and the South, the King of Kings.