The Innocents Abroad


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Yes, yes. Born here?"  
No! 'Gyptian mummy!"  
Ah, just so. Frenchman, I presume?"  
No!--not Frenchman, not Roman!--born in Egypta!"  
Born in Egypta. Never heard of Egypta before. Foreign locality,  
likely. Mummy--mummy. How calm he is--how self-possessed. Is, ah--is  
he dead?"  
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Oh, sacre bleu, been dead three thousan' year!"  
The doctor turned on him savagely:  
"Here, now, what do you mean by such conduct as this! Playing us for  
Chinamen because we are strangers and trying to learn! Trying to impose  
your vile second-hand carcasses on us!--thunder and lightning, I've a  
notion to--to--if you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!--or by  
George we'll brain you!"  
We make it exceedingly interesting for this Frenchman. However, he has  
paid us back, partly, without knowing it. He came to the hotel this  
morning to ask if we were up, and he endeavored as well as he could to  
describe us, so that the landlord would know which persons he meant. He  
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