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Updated: July 26, 2025
A stare from the guide. "No thousan' year before he is born." Then an Egyptian obelisk. Again: "Michael Angelo?" "Oh, mon dieu, genteelmen! Zis is two thousan' year before he is born!" He grows so tired of that unceasing question sometimes, that he dreads to show us any thing at all.
He had reserved what he considered to be his greatest wonder till the last a royal Egyptian mummy, the best preserved in the world, perhaps. He took us there. He felt so sure, this time, that some of his old enthusiasm came back to him: "See, genteelmen! Mummy! Mummy!" The eye-glass came up as calmly, as deliberately as ever.
"Small-pox, think?" "I do not know, genteelmen! I do not know what he die of!" "Measles, likely?" "May be may be I do not know I think he die of somethings." "Parents living?" "Im-poseeeble!" "Ah which is the bust and which is the pedestal?" "Santa Maria! zis ze bust! zis ze pedestal!" "Ah, I see, I see happy combination very happy combination, indeed.
"Small-pox, think?" "I do not know, genteelmen! I do not know what he die of!" "Measles, likely?" "May be may be I do not know I think he die of somethings." "Parents living?" "Im-poseeeble!" "Ah which is the bust and which is the pedestal?" "Santa Maria! zis ze bust! zis ze pedestal!" "Ah, I see, I see happy combination very happy combination, indeed.
A stare from the guide. "No thousan' year before he is born." Then an Egyptian obelisk. Again: "Michael Angelo?" "Oh, mon dieu, genteelmen! Zis is two thousan' year before he is born!" He grows so tired of that unceasing question sometimes, that he dreads to show us any thing at all.
A stare from the guide. "No thousan' year before he is born." Then an Egyptian obelisk. Again: "Michael Angelo?" "Oh, mon dieu, genteelmen! Zis is two thousan' year before he is born!" He grows so tired of that unceasing question sometimes, that he dreads to show us any thing at all.
"Small-pox, think?" "I do not know, genteelmen! I do not know what he die of!" "Measles, likely?" "May be may be I do not know I think he die of somethings." "Parents living?" "Im-poseeeble!" "Ah which is the bust and which is the pedestal?" "Santa Maria! zis ze bust! zis ze pedestal!" "Ah, I see, I see happy combination very happy combination, indeed.
Our guide there fidgeted about as if he had swallowed a spring mattress. He was full of animation full of impatience. He said: "Come wis me, genteelmen! come! I show you ze letter writing by Christopher Colombo! write it himself! write it wis his own hand! come!" He took us to the municipal palace.
He brought us before the beautiful bust for it was beautiful and sprang back and struck an attitude: "Ah, look, genteelmen! beautiful, grand, bust Christopher Colombo! beautiful bust, beautiful pedestal!" The doctor put up his eye-glass procured for such occasions: "Ah what did you say this gentleman's name was?" "Christopher Colombo! ze great Christopher Colombo!"
After much impressive fumbling of keys and opening of locks, the stained and aged document was spread before us. The guide's eyes sparkled. He danced about us and tapped the parchment with his finger: "What I tell you, genteelmen! Is it not so? See! handwriting Christopher Colombo! write it himself!" We looked indifferent unconcerned.
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