He moves among ordinary men and women, but as a mere presence, an unmoved spectator of their actions, quite dispassionate and impersonal." "Yes, he is astonishingly self-contained; in fact, he seems, as you say, to go to and fro among men, enveloped in a sort of infernal atmosphere of his own, like Marley's ghost.

But he is lively and human enough as soon as the subject of Egyptian antiquities is broached." "Lively, but not human.

He is always, to me, quite unhuman.

Even when he is most interested, and even enthusiastic, he is a mere personification of knowledge.

Nature ought to have furnished him with an ibis' head like Tahuti; then he would have looked his part." "He would have made a rare sensation in Lincoln's Inn if she had," said I; and we both laughed heartily at the imaginary picture of Tahuti Jellicoe, slender-beaked and top-hatted, going about his business in Lincoln's Inn and the Law Courts.
Insensibly, as we talked, we had drawn near to the mummy of Artemidorus, and now my companion halted before the case with her thoughtful grey eyes bent dreamily on the face that looked out at us.