"Oh, what a perfectly lovely mummy! Just fancy!-the poor thing-dead how many years? Something like five thousand, isn't it? And doesn't she look just like me! I mean, wouldn't she, if we had both been dead as long?" As she said this, Miss Nitocris Marmion, the golden-haired, black-eyed daughter of one of the most celebrated mathematicians and physicists in Europe, stood herself up beside the mummy-case which her father had received that morning from Memphis. "Look!" she continued. "I am almost the same height. Just a little ...
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"Oh, what a perfectly lovely mummy! Just fancy!-the poor thing-dead how many years? Something like five thousand, isn't it? And doesn't she look just like me! I mean, wouldn't she, if we had both been dead as long?" As she said this, Miss Nitocris Marmion, the golden-haired, black-eyed daughter of one of the most celebrated mathematicians and physicists in Europe, stood herself up beside the mummy-case which her father had received that morning from Memphis. "Look!" she continued. "I am almost the same height. Just a little taller, perhaps, but you see her hair is nearly as fair as mine. Of course, you don't know what colour her eyes are-just fancy, Dad! they have been shut for nearly five thousand years, perhaps a little more-because I think they counted by dynasties then-and yet look at the features! Just imagine me dead!"
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