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I may earn Rosebud that way in two years if you give her to me instead of wages. My two companions began to whisper to one another, and to stare at me as if I'd just come out of an Egyptian mummy-case. `What's up now? I said. `We can't make you out, said Saunders; `whatever are you driving at? `Oh, I'll soon make that clear! I said. `The fact is, gentlemen, I've been led to the conclusion that raffling isn't right; that it's only a sort of gambling; that, in fact, there are only three honest ways of my getting Rosebud.
And where the walls had been and the painted mummy-case, were tall dark green trees, oaks and ashes, and in between the trees and under them tangled bushes and creeping ivy. There were beech-trees too, but there was nothing under them but their own dead red drifted leaves, and here and there a delicate green fern-frond.
I've an idea she left some hieroglyphic message for me on her mummy-case, and doesn't propose to let me rest easy until I find and translate it. Now, if I believed in transmigration of souls do you see any mark of Antony about me? Say, though, just imagine the spirit of Marcus Antonius in a rubber apron, making an analysis of oleomargarine!
And I see an immortal child With its quaint high dreams and wondering eyes Sleeping beneath the hard worn body that lies Like a mummy-case defiled. And I hear an immortal cry Of splendour strain through the sodden words, Like a flight of brave-winged heaven-desirous birds From a swamp where poisons lie. I have looked into all men's hearts. Oh, secret terrible houses of beauty and pain!
The members of the procession then took their places in other richly decorated sailing boats, and all crossed the lake together. The procession was then reformed and went in the same order to the tomb. Here the mummy-case was placed on the slab prepared for it, and a sacrifice with libation and incense offered.
Ventimore had done his best, and failed; there was no reason now why he should stay a moment longer and yet he sat on, from sheer fatigue and disinclination to move. "Now we come to Lot 254, gentlemen," he heard the auctioneer saying, mechanically; "a capital Egyptian mummy-case in fine con No, I beg pardon, I'm wrong.
The mirror seemed to have vanished, and in its place was a window looking into his study. He saw the mummy-case leaning up against the wall, but it was empty. In front of it stood a man and a woman.
The same is true of the "squirrel theory," for this nimble little rodent is as likely to head north or south as to follow the course of the sun; the "wind theory" is subject to too many shifts and changes to be accounted a reliable agency; the "river-and-ocean-current theories" are still less satisfactory, since rivers flow in diverse directions, and ocean currents bear with safety only their own aquatic plants; the "mummy-case theory" is hardly an accredited agency, and the "war theory" is attended with too much destruction of life to be safely relied on as conserving the vital forces of nature.
"I forgot to ask," he said, "whether you unrolled the mummy if I may apply the term to the imperfectly treated remains of my deceased client." "I did not open the mummy-case," replied Thorndyke. "You did not!" exclaimed Mr. Jellicoe. "Then how did you verify your suspicions?" "I took an X-ray photograph." "Ah! Indeed!" Mr. Jellicoe pondered for some moments.
This mummiform type of sarcophagus is rarely met with under the Memphite dynasties, though that of Menkara, the Mycerinus of the Greeks, affords a memorable example. Under the Eleventh Dynasty, the mummy-case is frequently but a hollowed tree-trunk, roughly sculptured outside, with a head at one end and feet at the other.
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