The Sirdar and General Hunter have both taken a great interest in you.

It might be necessary, perhaps, for you to enter the British Army and serve for two or three years, so as to get a knowledge of drill and discipline; then, from your acquaintance with the languages here you could, of course, get transferred to the Egyptian Army, where you would rank as a major, at once." "I have hardly thought of the future yet, sir; but of course, I shall have to do so, as soon as I am absolutely convinced of my father's death.

Really, I have no hope now; but I promised my mother to do everything in my power to ascertain it, for a certainty.

She placed a packet in my hands, which was not to be opened until I had so satisfied myself.

I do not know what it contains, but I believe it relates to my father's family.
"I do not see that that can make any difference to me, for I certainly should not care to go home to see relations to whom my coming might be unwelcome.