be left in this way by herself." And the result of his thoughts was
that Miss Dawkins, if undertaken, might probably become more plague
than profit. As to Miss Dawkins herself, though she was ecstatic about
Mount Sinai--which was not present--she seemed to have forgotten the
poor Pyramids, which were then before her nose.

The two lads were riding races along the dusty path, much to the
disgust of their donkey-boys. Their time for enjoyment was to come.
There were hampers to be opened; and then the absolute climbing of the
Pyramids would actually be a delight to them.

As for Miss Damer and Mr. Ingram, it was clear that they had forgotten
palm-trees, Pyramids, the Nile, and all Egypt. They had escaped to a
much fairer paradise.

"Could I bear to live among Republicans?" said Fanny, repeating the
last words of her American lover, and looking down from her donkey to
the ground as she did so. "I hardly know what Republicans are, Mr.
Ingram."

"Let me teach you," said he.

"You do talk such nonsense. I declare there is that Miss Dawkins
looking at us as though she had twenty eyes. Could you not teach her,
Mr. Ingram?"

And so they emerged from the palm-tree grove, through a village crowded
with dirty, straggling Arab children, on to the cultivated plain,
beyond which the Pyramids stood, now full before them; the two large
Pyramids, a smaller one, and the huge sphynx's head all in a group