![]() ![]() Wooded, studded with sumptuous villas and Till I reached the brow of a hill, and a superb Thus lost in meditation, I walked onwards ![]() New ideas left, if I could but find them." To "Surely," thought I, "the deep mine of invention The malignant deity was deaf to my entreaty. It was all in vain! I struck myįorehead and called wit to my assistance, but Motion would shake off the sluggishness of my "It is very strange!" said I, as I walkedįaster, as though I hoped the rapidity of my ![]() Storehouse of my memory: I could think of nothing In vainĭid I rack my brains-in vain did I search the New, something quite out of the beaten path:-but Strong-"This will not do for me," thought IĪs I sauntered listlessly down a shady lane, oneįine evening in June "I must have something One race, with the family likeness so amazingly HeroesĪre generally so much alike, so monotonous, soĭreadfully insipid-so completely brothers of I could not bear any thing common-place, and I have long wished to write a novel, but IĬould not determine what it was to be about. Volume breaks indicated (ends of chapters XI and XXIV).] The chapters have been renumbered in this edition, and the ![]() [Transcriber's note: The Mummy! was originally published in three "Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?" ![]()
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