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Possibly less frightening!
When pronounced in such peremptory tones, Ramses’ name never fails to attract attention, particularly in Egypt, where it inevitably suggests the summoning, not of a small disobedient English boy, but of the ghost of the most famous of ancient Egyptian pharaohs.
Amelia Peabody in Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters
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Sometimes I get hung up on certain passages. Isn’t MPM’s writing divine?
Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters
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catastrophically precocious….
Amelia Peabody, The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters (via teamramses)
but we love him anyway!
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“Ramses,” I said. “You are not to go into any more pyramids, do you understand?”
“Unless it is wit’ you and Papa?” Ramses suggested.
“Well–yes, suppose I must make that exception, since it applies to the present situation.”
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
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No One is Perfect
Ramses must have sensed the pain that filled my heart, for as I was crawling up the last long passageway he said, “It is too bad Papa was not able to obtain de firman for Dashoor, Mama.”
“No one is perfect, Ramses, not even your papa.”
-The Mummy Case, by Elizabeth Peters
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Charlotte Brontë: Here’s my novel about a young governess who falls in love with a charming asshole edgelord who keeps his wife in the attic
Emily Brontë: Here’s my novel about a tragic orphan and a young lady who torture each other and call it love
Anne Brontë: Here’s my novel about a woman who leaves an abusive marriage and nabs herself a hot young Yorkshire sheepfarmer who Treats Her Right
Me: Oh thank God, at least one of you is sensible.
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Hah @team-ramses this is Amelia when Ramses gets going...
Robert: Am I right, mum?
Violet: I’m almost certain you’re not, but to be fair, I wasn’t listening.
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Flooded Temple of Isis, Island of Philae, Aswan, Egypt, c. 1900-1920.
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I’m going to cry through this entire book, aren’t I?
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A gang must have a leader, Emerson.
Amelia Peabody in The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters (via team-ramses)
“By the way, where'd you meet him? I met him at the pyramid/He turned around and smiled at me/You get the picture?/ That's when I fell for the Leader of the Gang" (But no, Amelia never did fall for him, at least officially!)
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Awwww
“So long as you are going, Mama,” he said, “will you bring me back a Coptic dictionary?”
“I don’t know that there is such a thing, Ramses.”
“Herr Steindorff has just published a Koptische Grammatik mit Chrestomathie, Wörterverzeichnis Literatur. Should that word me unobtainable, der is de elementary Coptic grammar and glossary in Arabic of Al-Bakurah al-shakyyah, or de Vocabularium Coptico-Latinum of Gustav Parthey–”
“I will see what I can do,” I said, unable to bear any more multilingual titles.
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
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Master Criminal Brainstorming, The Mummy Case
Amelia: I do not for a moment believe that Mr. Petrie is the Master Criminal, Emerson.
Emerson: Humph
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How Barbara Mertz felt about ancient Egypt




As we sat there, the full wonder and mystery of the place overshadowed me. // Amelia Peabody in The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
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“For pity’s sake, Ramses, don’t lecture! I cannot imagine whence you derive your unfortunate habit of loquacity. There is not need to go on and on when someone asks you a simple question. Brevity, my boy, is not only the soul of wit, it is the essence of literary and verbal efficiency. Model yourself on my example, I beg, and from now on–”
I was interrupted, not by Ramses, who was listening intently, but by Bastet.
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
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“For pity’s sake, Ramses, don’t lecture! I cannot imagine whence you derive your unfortunate habit of loquacity. There is not need to go on and on when someone asks you a simple question. Brevity, my boy, is not only the soul of wit, it is the essence of literary and verbal efficiency. Model yourself on my example, I beg, and from now on–”
I was interrupted, not by Ramses, who was listening intently, but by Bastet.
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
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“For pity’s sake, Ramses, don’t lecture! I cannot imagine whence you derive your unfortunate habit of loquacity. There is not need to go on and on when someone asks you a simple question. Brevity, my boy, is not only the soul of wit, it is the essence of literary and verbal efficiency. Model yourself on my example, I beg, and from now on–”
I was interrupted, not by Ramses, who was listening intently, but by Bastet.
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
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We’ll drink to that!!!


Happiness is a cat, a good book, and a fire at your back.
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