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THE MUMMY!

A TALE OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY.


By Jane Webb (Mrs. Loudon).


"Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?"
                           I SAM., xxviii. 15.


LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1827.




TABLE OF CONTENTS.


    INTRODUCTION.

    CHAPTER I.       CHAPTER XVII.
    CHAPTER II.      CHAPTER XVIII.
    CHAPTER III.     CHAPTER XIX.
    CHAPTER IV.      CHAPTER XX.
    CHAPTER V.       CHAPTER XXI.
    CHAPTER VI.      CHAPTER XXII.
    CHAPTER VII.     CHAPTER XXIII.
    CHAPTER VIII.    CHAPTER XXIV.
    CHAPTER IX.      CHAPTER XXV.
    CHAPTER X.       CHAPTER XXVI.
    CHAPTER XI.      CHAPTER XXVII.
    CHAPTER XII.     CHAPTER XXVIII.
    CHAPTER XIII.    CHAPTER XXIX.
    CHAPTER XIV.     CHAPTER XXX.
    CHAPTER XV.      CHAPTER XXXI.
    CHAPTER XVI.     CHAPTER XXXII.


[Transcriber's note: _The Mummy!_ was originally published in three
volumes.  The chapters have been renumbered in this edition, and the
volume breaks indicated (ends of chapters XI and XXIV).]




INTRODUCTION.


I have long wished to write a novel, but I could not determine what it
was to be about. I could not bear any thing common-place, and I did
not know what to do for a hero. Heroes are generally so much alike, so
monotonous, so dreadfully insipid--so completely brothers of one race,
with the family likeness so amazingly strong--"This will not do for
me," thought I as I saunter