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Was he acting under orders? Not daring to insist, she left her card, with a request that the Senator would call at the Grand Hôtel before dinner. She herself started for the Grand Hôtel, her heart quivering and groaning, the point of her shoe beating upon the little book against Freemasonry, which Donna Rosetta had forgotten. She would have liked the two sorrels to fly.
In the chaos of feeling into which Rosetta Muriel's unwise discipline had plunged her small sister, there was little chance for the voice of Annie's conscience to make itself heard. But Dorothy, on the other hand, was the prey of conscientious qualms. She had been naughty.
"And were these shells the cause of the tears?" said her brother, looking at a heap of shells, which she held before her in her frock. "Yes, partly," said Rosetta. "It was partly my own fault, but not all.
"And your sister Lilian?" "She's keeping house for Jem." "Pretty girl, isn't she?" "Yes," I said doubtfully. "Sings well, too." "So you cultivate music down there?" "Rather!" I said. "That is, Lilian does, and I do when I'm with her. We're pretty mad on it. I was dead set on hearing Rosetta Rosa in 'Lohengrin' to-night, but there isn't a seat to be had.
With this conception, the human body may be likened to a musical instrument an organ the keyboard of which is composed of the various receptors, upon which environment plays the many tunes of life; and written within ourselves in symbolic language is the history of our evolution. The skin may be the "Rosetta Stone" which furnishes the key. Anoci-association
"I'll go this minute into the wood-market, and see if I can find your faggot. Won't that be better than crying?" said her brother. "Should you know any one of your pieces of wood again if you were to see them?" "Yes, one of them, I am sure, I should know again," said Rosetta. "It had a notch at one end of it, where one of the carpenters cut it off from another piece of wood for me."
As several of these branches have been tapped to a great extent for irrigation, all except two have ceased to be true outlets of the Nile. The two remaining mouths are those of Rosetta and Damietta, and these were always the most important of the number.
But they possessed no Rosetta Stone to aid them in deciphering hieroglyphics; toad-like, they carried the precious stone in their heads, M. D.! No indiscreet sound interrupted their mental gymnastics, save only the stealthy scrape of a pen, the subdued rustle of writing paper, the flutter of a code-book's leaves thumbed furtively.
Young's specific discoveries were these: That many of the pictures of the hieroglyphics stand for the names of the objects actually delineated; that other pictures are sometimes only symbolic; that plural numbers are represented by repetition; that numerals are represented by dashes; that hieroglyphics may read either from the right or from the left, but always from the direction in which the animal and human figures face; that proper names are surrounded by a graven oval ring, making what he called a cartouche; that the cartouches of the preserved portion of the Rosetta Stone stand for the name of Ptolemy alone; that the presence of a female figure after such cartouches in other inscriptions always denotes the female sex; that within the cartouches the hieroglyphic symbols have a positively phonetic value, either alphabetic or syllabic; and that several different characters may have the same phonetic value.
She was excessively self-conscious and anxious to show off before Shafto. "Are you really?" he said with an incredulous smile. "Oh, yes, I attend the convent school; I am learning French and dancing, I go to mass; mother goes to the pagoda festivals mother is a heathen." "Rosetta! Mind what you are saying," sharply interposed Salter; "your mother's no more a heathen than yourself."
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