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   See

    The Mark of Cain

   [Arrowsmith], an excellent shillingsworth.—

    Ed.

   Is this not 'log rolling'?—

    Publisher.

   These were halcyon hours, happier as Leonora grew up and received the education prescribed for her by her parent. Her Hebrew was fair, and her Hittite up to a first class, but, to my distress, she mainly devoted herself to Celtic studies.

   I should tell you that Leonora's chief interest in life was the decipherment of the inscriptions on her cradle—the mummy case which had rocked her ancestors since Abraham's time, and which is now in your possession. Of itself it is a sufficient proof of the accuracy of this narrative. The mummy case is not the ordinary coffin of Egyptian commerce. The hieroglyphics have baffled Dr. Isaac Taylor, and have been variously construed as Chinese, Etruscan, and Basque, by the various professors of these learned lingoes.

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    8

   Don't you think this bit is a little dull? The public don't care about dead languages.—

    Publisher.

   Story can't possibly get on without it, as you'll see. You

    must

   have something of this sort in a romance. Look at Poe's cypher in the

    Gold Beetle

   , and the chart in

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