Court Life in Egypt (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Alfred Joshua Butler |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-11-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 033185273X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780331852738 |
Rating | : 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Excerpt from Court Life in Egypt IT was in January, 1880, that I received a telegram summoning me out to Egypt as tutor to the sons of the Khedive and, though a friend long familiar with the East pledged his knowledge of orientals that the order meant no hurry for a month or two, I judged it better to obey more literally. AS yet I had not learned the Egyptian proverb, Haste is of the devil. So I was soon on board a French packet sailing away from the Bay of Naples, not sorry to have so bright a scene for the last clear view in Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.