'It appeaws to me that he was muwduwed.'.' a domestic cwime.'.'One of the ladies of the hawem did it, I think.' I seized Emerson by the arm and pushed him toward the door, before he could pursue this interesting suggestion. From the small figure in the cot came a reflective voice. '.the anatomical details of the wounds, which included a large gash in the frontal bone, a broken malar bone and orbit, and a spear thrust which smashed off the mastoid process and struck the atlas vertebra, allow us to reconstruct the death scene of the king.'. It made a pretty little family scene, until one heard what was being said. Ramses, in his crib, contemplated the ceiling with rapt attention. the room was dark except for one lamp, by whose light Emerson was reading. Even more terrifying was the occasional thoughtful nod the child would give. “To see Ramses, at fourteen months, wrinkling his brows over a sentence like 'The theology of the Egyptians was a compound of fetishism, totem-ism and syncretism' was a sight as terrifying as it was comical.
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