It was not heavy and could be moved about easily enough.
By aid of this we raised the covers in turn and looked at the endless series of hieroglyphic pictures cut in most of them.

In spite of her profession of ignorance Margaret knew a good deal about them; her year of life with her father had had unconsciously its daily and hourly lesson.

She was a remarkably clever and acute-minded girl, and with a prodigious memory; so that her store of knowledge, gathered unthinkingly bit by bit, had grown to proportions that many a scholar might have envied.
And yet it was all so naive and unconscious; so girlish and simple.
She was so fresh in her views and ideas, and had so little thought of self, that in her companionship I forgot for the time all the troubles and mysteries which enmeshed the house; and I felt like a boy again....
The most interesting of the sarcophagi were undoubtedly the three in Mr.Trelawny's room.

Of these, two were of dark stone, one of porphyry and the other of a sort of ironstone.

These were wrought with some hieroglyphs.