Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 230
espair. When they faced the great propylon, with anapprehensive smile on,Sculptured there, in hieroglyphics two feetwide and three feet high,Was the threat of King Rameses to chopevery man to piecesIf, when shown the royal diamond, theydared refuse to buy.Pale but calm, the dealer, Muley Hassan,… … 698 BEN ALI THE EGYPTIAN. [July, Then Abel-Allah Abd-El-Mahdi faintly said the stone was shoddy, But he thought upon a pinch he might bid fifty cents himself.There ensued a slight commotion ere he could repent the notion; And Abd-Allah was promoted to the Oriental shelf.Every heart was wildly…
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