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26 FRANCOIS AUGUSTS FERDINAND MARIETTE.
most neatly and systematically arranged; now
pacing to and fro across the room, his wide brow
furrowed by thought. At eleven, when he sat
down to his dejeuner, he would unbend and give
free scope to his Gallic wit. The savant then
became the most charming of conversationists. He
kept table ouverte all his life, entertaining with
lavish hospitality all the friends who chanced to drop
in at those unceremonious meals. . . . My sister
writes me from Boulaq, that our poor brother has
been embalmed, and still lies in the Museum, in his
coffin, which is covered with flowers, every moment
renewed by the friends who are continually bring-
ing fresh wreaths and bouquets. The khedive
has sent to Thebes for a certain ancient Egyptian
sarcophagus which the Pacha Mariette had once
pointed out to M. Vassali as the receptacle in
which he should wish his ashes to repose. He was
a commander of the Legion of Honor, of the Med-
jidie, of the Italian order of SS. Maurice and Laza-
rus, of the order of Francis Joseph, and I do not
know how many more. He was also an officer of
the first class of the Red Eagle of Prussia."
most neatly and systematically arranged; now
pacing to and fro across the room, his wide brow
furrowed by thought. At eleven, when he sat
down to his dejeuner, he would unbend and give
free scope to his Gallic wit. The savant then
became the most charming of conversationists. He
kept table ouverte all his life, entertaining with
lavish hospitality all the friends who chanced to drop
in at those unceremonious meals. . . . My sister
writes me from Boulaq, that our poor brother has
been embalmed, and still lies in the Museum, in his
coffin, which is covered with flowers, every moment
renewed by the friends who are continually bring-
ing fresh wreaths and bouquets. The khedive
has sent to Thebes for a certain ancient Egyptian
sarcophagus which the Pacha Mariette had once
pointed out to M. Vassali as the receptacle in
which he should wish his ashes to repose. He was
a commander of the Legion of Honor, of the Med-
jidie, of the Italian order of SS. Maurice and Laza-
rus, of the order of Francis Joseph, and I do not
know how many more. He was also an officer of
the first class of the Red Eagle of Prussia."