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Is there then no keeper, no guardian of this holy mosque?
And amongst the faithful prostrate here in prayer, none who will rise and make indignant protest?
Who after this will speak to us of the fanaticism of the Egyptians?
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Too meek, rather, they seem to me everywhere.

Take any church you please in Europe where men go down on their knees in prayer, and I should like to see what kind of a welcome would be accorded to a party of Moslem tourists who--to suppose the impossible--behaved so badly as these savages here.
Behind the mosque is an esplanade, and beyond that the palace.