Greedy of piastres, he coveted still more eagerly such small glittering articles as one cannot keep covered--gold scarf-pins, rings, sleeve-links, or nickel cigar-lighters; and when he saw a gold chain his face would light up with a gleam of pleasure.
"The following summer was the hardest time of my life.

An epidemic of cholera had broken out in Lower Egypt.

I was running about the town all day long in a scorching atmosphere.

Cairo summers are overpowering to Europeans.

We were going through the hottest weeks I had ever known.