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--Then to Palestine, and spend months in
tracing the footsteps of the greatest human life ever lived. Take
Egypt on your way home, just to remind yourself that there are
still, in this very modern world of ours, a few passably ancient
things,--a well-preserved wooden man, for instance, with eyes of
opaque white quartz, a piece of rock crystal in the centre for a
pupil. These glittering eyes looked out upon the world from beneath
their eyelids of bronze, in the time of Abraham. You will find it in
the museum at Cairo. Ride a donkey in the Mooskee if you want real
sport; and if you feel a little slack, climb the Great Pyramid. Ask
for an Arab named Schehati, and tell him you want to do it one
minute quicker than any lady has ever done it before."
"Then come home, my dear girl, ring me up and ask for an
appointment; or chance it, and let Stoddart slip you into my
consulting-room between patients, and report how the prescription
has worked. I never gave a better; and you need not offer me a
guinea! I attend old friends gratis.


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