and govern them, living as now at mine own ease?

"_Verily, the stars shall give me a new palace, and many
subjects_."

Among the wise men was Darvan; and Morven feared him, for his
eye often sought the movements of the son of Osslah.

And Morven said "It were better to TRUST this man than to BLIND,
for surely I want a helpmate and a friend."

So he said to the wise man as he sat alone watching the setting
sun:

"It seemeth to me, O Darvan! I that we ought to build a great
pile in honor of the stars and the pile should be more glorious
than all the palaces of the chiefs and the palaces of the king;
for are not the stars our masters?

"And thou and I should be the chief dwellers in this new palace,
and we would serve the gods of night, and fatten their altars
with the choicest of the herd, and the freshest of the fruits of
the earth."

And Darvan said:

"thou speakest as becomes the servant of the stars. But will the
people help to build the pile, for they are a war-like race and
they love not toil?"