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I couldn't have believed it; I can't account for it, unless he's very gifted in mind or very different when with her. This must be true, and he would be a mummy indeed if she couldn't wake him up." Roger rode home, however, ill at ease. "He hasn't forgotten her if he has given her up on account of her poverty," he thought.
"We'll all be glad to wait on you, I'm sure," protested Ruth, with another smile that won Grimshaw completely. "I'll go down now and see how Wah Lee is getting along with breakfast," the girl continued. "I've no doubt you folks will be hungry enough to do justice to it." "This air would give an appetite to a mummy," declared Drew.
You should have seen his face of horror, Ralph, when I suggested this; but he came to see that it was his only chance, and told me to set about it as fast as I could; 'For, said he, 'this is no jokin', Jack, I can tell you, and the sooner it's done the better. I soon procured the cordage and a suitable pole, with which I returned to the cave, and lashed him as stiff and straight as an Egyptian mummy; and, to say truth, he was no bad representation of what an English mummy would be, if there were such things, for he was as white as a dead man."
'Mummy tooked ve t'ock, said Milly, the eldest child, who had followed him in from the door, and now gravely observed his movements. 'She tooked ve t'ock an' went ta-ta. An' she tooked ve fyowers. Bob lit the paraffin lamp with the green glass reservoir, and carried it and its evil smell about the house. Some things had been turned over and others had gone, plainly.
Rosa made a detour of the shed, satisfied herself that no one was within hearing, and then sat down on the bench, ostensibly playing with the papoose, dangling a red ball on a ribbon before his dazzled, bead-like eyes and bringing forth a gurgle of delight from the dusky little mummy. While she played she talked idly with the Indians. Had they money enough for their journey?
And then Thorndyke, in his quiet, impassive way, said: "John Bellingham is here, Doctor Norbury. This is John Bellingham." Dr. Norbury started back and stared at Thorndyke in speechless amazement. "You don't mean," he exclaimed, after a long pause, "that this mummy is the body of John Bellingham!" "I do, indeed. There is no doubt of it." "But it is impossible!
He thought it might be measles and he is afraid of catching things." "Yes," replied Godfrey without surprise. "It wasn't measles, but if it had been you might have caught them, so of course he was right to be careful." "Oh! he wasn't thinking of me or Mummy, he was thinking of himself," blurted out Isobel with the candour of youth.
'Ses, is the answer, 'but I must love Mummy still. 'Yes, dear, of course, is the answer, 'Mummy, as you call her, is coming to see me this afternoon. Teddy has been watching from the distance, his nose has been altogether put out of joint, and it is rather a melancholy freckled face that Philippa catches sight of.
The belief of the Egyptian that life was a short passage and his house a mere stopping-place on the way to the tomb, which was to be his permanent dwelling-place, explains the great care and labor spent on the pyramids, chapels, and rock sepulchers. They embalmed the dead for all eternity and put statues and images in the tombs to keep the mummy company.
I do believe I succeeded, too, for I got to like her in a way I never did before; and when I used to come home from a cruise for, of course, I soon went to sea again I always had somethin' for her from furrin' parts. An' she was greatly pleased at my attentions an' presents all except once, when I brought her the head of a mummy from Egypt.
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