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The Innocents Abroad
Part 3 of 6

CHAPTER XXVII
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He took us there.

He felt so sure, this time, that some of his old enthusiasm came back to him: "See, genteelmen!--Mummy! Mummy!" The eye-glass came up as calmly, as deliberately as ever.
"Ah,--Ferguson--what did I understand you to say the gentleman's name was ?" "Name ?--he got no name!--Mummy!--'Gyptian mummy!" "Yes, yes.

Born here ?" "No! 'Gyptian mummy!" "Ah, just so.

Frenchman, I presume ?" "No!--not Frenchman, not Roman!--born in Egypta!" "Born in Egypta.

Never heard of Egypta before.


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