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Excerpt from The Lady Isis in Bohemia <p>Pasha, still lodged with the dead Pharaohs. T The Pasha gave his consent to the removal of the mummy only after the inter cession of certain potentates in Cairo had been solicited and granted. The Lady Isis was purchased and carefully placed, still resting in her original coin, in a box of larger dimensions, and before the wise menl'of Egypt knew, she was borne on Preface the deep waves to that marvelous city where the New World greets the western seas. T At last, on May 5, 1914, quite a year after the hurried departure from Cairo, came the Presentation which had been announced and described in a circular issued and forwarded to each Club member a few days earlier. I? <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.