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A Thorny Path. Volume 12Georg Ebers A Thorny Path – Volume 12 CHAPTER XXXIV Caracalla's evening meal was ended, and for years past his friends had never seen the gloomy monarch in so mad a mood. The high-priest of Serapis, with Dio Cassius the senator, and a few others of his suite, had not indee...

Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt. CompleteGeorg Ebers Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt – Complete CHAPTER I By the walls of Thebes—the old city of a hundred gates—the Nile spreads to a broad river; the heights, which follow the stream on both sides, here take a more decided outline; solitary,...

The Sisters. CompleteGeorg Ebers The Sisters – Complete PREFACE By a marvellous combination of circumstances a number of fragments of the Royal Archives of Memphis have been preserved from destruction with the rest, containing petitions written on papyrus in the Greek language; these were compose...

The Emperor. Volume 06Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 06 CHAPTER I Dame Hannah had watched by Selene till sunrise and indefatigably cooled both her injured foot and the wound in her head. The old physician was not dissatisfied with the condition of his patient, but ordered the widow to lie down ...

The Emperor. Volume 03Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 03 CHAPTER X While anxiety and trouble were brooding over the steward's dwelling, while dismay and disappointment were clouding the souls of its inhabitants, the hall of the Muses was merry with feasting and laughter.Julia, the prefect's wife...

The Emperor. Volume 04Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 04 CHAPTER XV After the Emperor's body-slave had started up to go to the aid of Selene, who was attacked by his sovereign's dog, something had happened to him which he could not forget; he had received an impression which he could not wipe ou...

The Emperor. Volume 05Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 05 CHAPTER XIX Plutarch was one of the richest citizens of Alexandria, and the owner of the papyrus manufactory where Selene and Arsinoe worked; and he had of his own free will offered to provide for the "suitable" entertainment of the wives ...

The Emperor. Volume 02Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 02 CHAPTER V Pontius had gone to the steward's room, with a frowning brow, but it was with a smile on his strongly-marked lips, and a brisk step that he returned to his work-people. The foreman came to meet him with looks of enquiry as he sai...

The Emperor. Volume 01Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 01 PREFACE It is now fourteen years since I planned the story related in these volumes, the outcome of a series of lectures which I had occasion to deliver on the period of the Roman dominion in Egypt. But the pleasures of inventive compositi...

The Sisters. Volume 5Georg Ebers The Sisters – Volume 5 CHAPTER XXII On the roof of the tower of the pylon by the gate of the Serapeum stood an astrologer who had mounted to this, the highest part of the temple, to observe the stars; but it seemed that he was not destined on this occasion to fulf...