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The mummy was that of a priestess , and contained a beautifully painted systrum , as well as a small gold lachrymarium or paint bottle , which are now in the possession of my elder Brother. My Father gave the mummy and its cases to the Frank- forts wuseum’, Where they are still®to be seen’. Relonging to a cosmopolitan family and receiving a cos- mopolitan education , I was often taken on visits to my rela- tions an. Paris®andi Wondon. .“Myo first irecolad é¢et ion of Faris*as of a park where a tall, sad-looking, middle-aged lady stood conversing with my Mother. The park was St. Cloud , and the lady Queen Amélie , the Consort of Louis Phillippe. My next recollection is of Surésnes , my Grandfather's country house near the villase of that name on the Seine, where my nurse often took me to feed the tame deer in an enclosure in the grounds. During the Revolution of I848 this house was burnt down , and the deer were tortured to death by the Paris mob. This was the only occasion on which any of my relatives in Paris or elsewhere have had to suffer any personal injury from revolutionists or anarchists . The Revolution of 1848 was a critical time for my French relatives . Some fanatics burst into the office of my Great- uncle demanding of him that he should divide his fortune among them . " At what figure do you estimate my fortune? " he asked them, and one of the men replied at haphazard " At thirty-five millions ." " And how many of you are there ?" he further asked . " We are ten ," was the reply. " You wish me to act y, dO you not ? Very well, as there are CHIrty=fivetmili— ions of inhabitants in France I should 5 LA Order’ to.adt = | | i H i H