"Here is a papyrus on which the
characters are so badly traced that they are indecipherable. How shall
I classify it?"
"Let me see," said the curator, examining the piece. "Just call it a
doctor's prescription in the time of Pharaoh."
Spirit writing--the modern doctor's prescription--_Life_.
_See also_ Names, Personal.
PRETENSION
Pretension is a kind of velvet cloak
I wear to hide my real self from view,
And yet where'er I meet with other folk
I always find they wear this garment too.
Pretension is a kind of golden veil
Behind whose mesh I seek to hide my face,
And yet where'er I go I never fail
To see that others wear it too with grace.
Pretension is a thing I say I hate
In both myself and in my dearest friend,
And yet whene'er I slyly watch and wait
I find in some regard we all pretend.
--_Ernest Powell_.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: Nature never
pretends.--_Lavater_.
When half-gods go, the gods arrive.--_Emerson_.
PRICES
"Have any trouble in getting your money back?"
"Not a bit," replied the dissatisfied purchaser. "But I got the worst
of it, as usual. The price of the article had jumped so by the time I
got back to the store that they made a profit by getting it in stock
again.
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