Directly he produced the sheets, the professor became interested.

The faint odor which seemed shaken out from them into the room stimulated his curiosity.

He sniffed at it with great content.
"Strange," he remarked, "very strange.

I haven't smelt that perfume since I was with the excavators at Chaldea.

A real Oriental flavor, young man, about your manuscript." "There is very little of it," Burton said,--"just a page or so which apparently the writer never had time to finish.