But when I present a check at the door, and go in as if it were Barnum's show, all the subtle feeling of romance goes right out of it." "Absolutely!" said Cecil Brown, looking over the desert with his dark, intolerant eyes.

"If one could come wandering here alone--stumble upon it by chance, as it were--and find one's self in absolute solitude in the dim light of the temple, with these grotesque figures all round, it would be perfectly overwhelming.

A man would be prostrated with wonder and awe.

But when Belmont is puffing his bulldog pipe, and Stuart is wheezing, and Miss Sadie Adams is laughing--" "And that jay of a dragoman speaking his piece," said Headingly; "I want to stand and think all the time, and I never seem to get the chance.

I was ripe for manslaughter when I stood before the Great Pyramid, and couldn't get a quiet moment because they would boost me on to the top.