Take Egypt on your way home, just to remind yourself that there are still, in this very modern world of ours, a few passably ancient things,--a well-preserved wooden man, for instance, with eyes of opaque white quartz, a piece of rock crystal in the centre for a pupil.

These glittering eyes looked out upon the world from beneath their eyelids of bronze, in the time of Abraham.

You will find it in the museum at Cairo.

Ride a donkey in the Mooskee if you want real sport; and if you feel a little slack, climb the Great Pyramid.
Ask for an Arab named Schehati, and tell him you want to do it one minute quicker than any lady has ever done it before." "Then come home, my dear girl, ring me up and ask for an appointment; or chance it, and let Stoddart slip you into my consulting-room between patients, and report how the prescription has worked.

I never gave a better; and you need not offer me a guinea! I attend old friends gratis." Jane laughed, and gripped his hand.