The others will, of course, be moved up, and I should get the junior clerkship--no advance in the way of remuneration, but a great improvement in position.
"So I think we had better accept the three months' pay, and take our chances.

At any rate, there will be no fear of another disturbance at Alexandria.

The mob have had a lesson here that they are not likely to forget, and I should fancy that, although we may withdraw the army, two or three regiments will be left here, and at Cairo, for a long time to come.

We should be fools, indeed, if we threw away the money that this business will cost, before it is over, and let Egypt slip altogether out of our fingers again.

France has forfeited her right to have anything to say in the matter.