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Excerpt from The Mummy, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
It would be of no use to go to sleep'with out dreaming; and, accordingly, I had scarce ly closed my eyes-when, methought, a spirit stood before me. His head was crowned with ?owers; his azure wings ?uttered in the breeze, and a light-drapery, liker the ?eet-y that hangs upon the summit of a mo n, ?oated round him. In his hand he held' 30 scroll, ' and his voice sounded soft and sweet as the liquid melody-of the nightingale.
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