"I want to make you aware of my sympathy and my appreciation without offending you by seeming to exaggerate, and I don't know how to express it." "Oh, never mind about the expression, so long as you feel it.

I thought you would understand," and she gave me a smile that made me tingle to my finger-tips.
We stood awhile gazing in silence at the mummy--for such, indeed, was her friend Artemidorus.

But not an ordinary mummy.

Egyptian in form, it was entirely Greek in feeling; and brightly coloured as it was, in accordance with the racial love of colour, the tasteful refinement with which the decoration of the case was treated made those around look garish and barbaric.

But the most striking feature was a charming panel portrait which occupied the place of the usual mask.