The Egypt Game Events Quotes

And one of the things they had in common, at that time, was a vague and mysterious fear of the old man called the Professor. (1.5)

She'd started out just trying to get the old man to talk and then somehow, she couldn't quit. It was almost as if the old man's deadly silence was a dangerous dark hole that had to be filled up qui...

It would be neat if she turned out to be a real friend. There hadn't been any girls the right age in the Casa Rosada lately. To have a handy friend again, for spur-of-the-moment visiting, would be...

All through the month of August, Melanie and April were together almost every day. They played the paper-families game and other games, both in the Rosses' apartment and in Caroline's. They took Ma...

But with Melanie working her hardest as a go-between, it wasn't too long before things began to be a little better. The sixth grade began to find out that April had a way of making life interesting...

April had been afraid—well, looking at Elizabeth's upturned face and pretty tilted eyes, wide with wonder at almost anything you told her, it was hard to remember just what she had been afraid of...

From somewhere not too far away, perhaps the main alley behind the Casa Rosada, Mrs. Ross's voice was calling, "Melanie! Marshall! Melanie!" There was something about the tone of her voice that mad...

Elizabeth had a tendency to worry about things like not having permission. She might understand that it was not at all like being downright disobedient. As April pointed out, no one had forbidden t...

If the secret and mysterious land of Egypt was fascinating in the daytime, it was doubly so at night. Dimly lit by a distant streetlight, two flashlights and a jack-o'-lantern, it was almost too fa...

"The gods demand that we make a horrible and bloody sacrifice." April took up Melanie's theme with relish. "A horrible and bloody sacrifice," Melanie agreed. "A horrible and bloody sacrifice," Mars...

"Please," she said, in a feathery little voice. "Please don't tell on us, and we'll let you play, too." April cringed. It was such a corny, baby thing to say. She had a crazy urge to grab Elizabet...

Before he started talking, he looked around quickly to be sure no one who mattered was looking. Ken and Toby didn't believe in talking to girls. Of course, it was all right to make comments at girl...

Besides all the other stuff, Toby had also brought some pencils and paper. He said he'd been thinking it over, and he'd decided the first thing they ought to do was finish the alphabet of hieroglyp...

When the Egyptians had assembled the next afternoon, bringing their offerings of oil and spice and salt and perfume, Toby—Ramose—gave a little talk on how to prepare a mummy. It was a good spee...

The sun was very low and the shade was deep in the back of the temple where the new altar to Thoth had been built. The huge tattered owl seemed to be leaning forward, staring into the incense burne...

"Thunder! That was thunder!" everybody started saying to each other in voices that were giggly with relief. Somehow, without quite knowing how they'd gotten there, they were all six standing in a r...

And for some reason, Toby tried hardest of all. He squatted down by Marshall and talked to him a long time about how he didn't think that was the kind of question that oracles answered, but Marshal...

"Well," April and Melanie said to each other—only just with a look, not out loud, "wasn't that just like a boy. They got things into a mess and then expected a girl to get them out of it." But,...

She was holding the board open for Marshall when, out of the darkness and silence behind, something grabbed her with crushing strength, and big hard fingers smothered the scream that sprang into he...

After that he started leaving Security home sometimes when he went places, and before too long he didn't need to have Security with him at all anymore, excepting to hold on to at night when he was...

There were two or three browsers just looking around; and the Professor was wrapping something up for a customer; and over by the window Elizabeth's mother, Mrs. Chung, was dusting some figurines a...

So the date was made—Egypt, the day after Christmas, right after lunch. Then everybody got up and started getting ready to go home. (23.43)