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She was an almost perfect type of the highly developed, highly educated American girl of to-day, a marvellous compound of intense energy and languorous grace. She had done as brilliantly at Vassar as Nitocris had done at Girton and London, and she had also rowed stroke in the Ladies' Eight, and was champion fencer of the College.
He had seen the advent of the Queen, and heard what she had said to Phadrig with other eyes and ears than his guests had done, for to them it had only been Nitocris who had gone to him and said a few inaudible words, which they had taken as a request for the conclusion of his "performance."
"Van Huysman!" exclaimed the Professor. "That Yankee charlatan, confound him! I shouldn't wonder if he had the impudence to take part in the discussion afterwards." "Then," laughed Nitocris, "you must take care to have all your heavy guns ready for action. But, of course, Dad, you won't let your well, your scientific feelings get mixed up with social matters, will you?
Their mode of construction. Primitive navigation. Return of the boatmen. Extent of Babylon. Parks, gardens, palaces, etc. The walls of Babylon. Marvelous accounts. The ditches. Streets and gates. Palace of the king. Temple of Belus. The bridge. Sculptures. The hanging gardens. Construction of the gardens. The platform and terraces. Engine for raising water. Floral beauties. The works of Nitocris.
He found this mummy in a royal tomb at Memphis. He well, I suppose, stole it of course under the usual licence from the Khedive and sent it home to Dad. Now comes the mystery. That was the mummy of Nitocris, the daughter of the great Rameses, and it was the dead image of my living self." "Oh, but, Niti what do you mean?" "I don't know, Brenda. I wish I did.
Then they finished their tea and talk, and Brenda and Nitocris went and put on their wraps not the imitation of the mediæval armour which is used for serious motor-driving, but just dust-cloaks and mushrooms, both of which Brenda lent to her friend. As they came back through the drawing-room, she said to her mother: "Well, Mamma, the car's ready, I believe.
Before morning it would be buried for ever under the waters of the Baltic, and he would revenge himself on the daughter for that which the father refused to do. If Franklin Marmion would not give him the sceptre of the World-Empire, then Nitocris should be his wife and Empress if she would, and if not, his slave and plaything, as he had sworn to Phadrig the Egyptian.
"Yet this once it shall be done, O Priest of the Father of the Gods," answered Nitocris, turning and looking into his eyes, "for last night I had a vision, and I saw the soul of Nefer come back to his mummy, here in this hall, at my bridal feast, and his eyes opened, and his lips spoke, and made plain to me many things that I greatly longed to know.
Captain Merrill followed the Admiral to his room, and told the story of the taking of the Oscarburg a very easy matter with a hundred bluejackets at his back the capture of Oscarovitch, who was now in a straight waistcoat on board his own yacht, the rescue of Prince Zastrow and Nitocris, and "The other Nitocris is following, sir," he concluded. "I thought I had better take the yacht.
Nitocris saw with growing cause for self-gratulation that Lord Leighton and Brenda were decidedly attracted towards each other.
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