There, probably, lay the countenance that had frowned
on Moses. There was the heart which God had hardened. Well, it was
hard enough now, for the doctors said he died of ossification of the
arteries, and that the vessels of the heart were full of lime!
Smith stood upon a chair and peeped at Seti II. above. His weaker
countenance was very peaceful, but it seemed to wear an air of reproach.
In getting down Smith managed to upset the heavy chair. The noise it
made was terrific. He would not have thought it possible that the fall
of such an article could produce so much sound. Satisfied with his
inspection of these particular kings, who somehow looked quite different
now from what they had ever done before--more real and imminent, so to
speak--he renewed his search for a living man.
On he went, mummies to his right, mummies to his left, of every style
and period, till he began to feel as though he never wished to see
another dried remnant of mortality. He peeped into the room where lay
the relics of Iouiya and Touiyou, the father and mother of the great
Queen Taia. Cloths had been drawn over these, and really they looked
worse and more suggestive thus draped than in their frigid and unadorned
blackness.
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