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The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers

CHAPTER XVI
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"Throw them the entrails, when you have done; the legs and back you can roast.
Be careful how you cut out the heart--the heart, soldier.

There it is! What a great beast." Nebsecht took the ram's heart in his hand, and gazed at it with the deepest attention, whilst the old paraschites watched him anxiously.

At length: "I promised," he said, "to do for you what you wish, if you restore the little one to health; but you ask for what is impossible." "Impossible ?" said the physician, "why, impossible?
You open the corpses, you go in and out of the house of the embalmer.

Get possession of one of the canopi, [Vases of clay, limestone, or alabaster, which were used for the preservation of the intestines of the embalmed Egyptians, and represented the four genii of death, Amset, Hapi, Tuamutef, and Khebsennuf.

Instead of the cover, the head of the genius to which it was dedicated, was placed on each kanopus.


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