The Mummy's Foot

I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity venders who are called _marchands de bric-à-brac_ in that Parisian _argot_ which is so perfectly unintelligibl...

'If you were even only two thousand years old,' replied the ancient king, 'I would willingly give you the princess, but the disproportion is too great; and, besides, we must giv...