We will look at the mummy as soon as I have acquainted you with his misfortunes." "Aha!" cried M.Audret, the architect of the chateau, "it's the romance of the mummy, is it, that you're going to tell us?
Too late my poor Leon! Theophile Gautier has gotten ahead of you, in the supplement to the _Moniteur_, and all the world knows your Egyptian history." "My history," said Leon, "is no more Egyptian than Manon Lescault.

Our excellent doctor Martout, here, ought to know the name of professor John Meiser, of Dantzic; he lived at the beginning of this century, and I think that his last work appeared in 1824 or 1825." "In 1823," replied M.Martout.

"Meiser is one of the scientific men who have done Germany most honor.

In the midst of terrible wars which drenched his country in blood, he followed up the researches of Leeuwenkoeck, Baker, Needham, Fontana, and Spallanzani, on the revivification of animals.

Our profession honors in him, one of the fathers of modern biology." "Heavens! What ugly big words!" cried Mlle.Sambucco.