"Now what do you want, _mon enfant?_ here is everything."
"Is there anything about Egypt?"
"Egypt! Are you in Egypt? — See here — look, here is Denon —
here is Laborde; here is two or three more. Do you like that?
Ah! I see by the way your grey eyes grow big. — Now sit down,
and do what you like. Nobody will disturb you. You can come
here every evening for the hour before tea."
Mademoiselle scarce staid for my thanks, and left me alone. I
had not seen either Laborde or Denon in my grandfather's
library at Magnolia; they were after his time. The engravings
and illustrations also had not been very many or very fine in
his collection of travellers' books. It was the greatest joy
to me to see some of those things in Mme. Ricard's library,
that I had read and dreamed about so long in my head. It was
adding eyesight to hearsay. I found a good deal too that I
wanted to read, in these later authorities. Evening after
evening I was in Madame's library, lost among the halls of the
old Egyptian conquerors.
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