# The Bride of the Nile — Volume 08

Author: Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898; Bell, Clara, 1834-1927 [Translator]

Genre: Historical Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5524

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Bride+of+the+Nile+Ebers&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

After that interview with Orion, Philippus hurried off through the town, paying so little heed to the people he met and to the processions besieging Heaven with loud psalms to let the Nile at last begin to rise, that he ran up against more than one passer-by, and had many a word of abuse shouted after him. He went into two or three houses, and neither his patients nor their attendants could recognize, in this abrupt and hasty visitor, the physician and friend who was usually so sympathetic to the sufferer: who would speak with a cordiality that brought new life to his heart, who would toss the children in the air, kiss one and nod merrily to another. To-day their elders even felt shy and...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bride-of-the-nile-volume-08-5524/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bride-of-the-nile-volume-08-5524/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bride-of-the-nile-volume-08-5524/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bride-of-the-nile-volume-08-5524/chapters/1/index.md)