She gave lessons to the ladies in English, French, and music, and had classes for young boys and girls.

I once asked her if she did not intend to go back and settle in England, and she said 'Possibly, some day.' "I fancy that there must have been some mystery about the affair--what, I can't say; but at any rate, we may take it that such a woman would not have married a man who was not a gentleman." "Certainly the boy looks a well-bred one," Captain Ewart said, "and I am sure that the Sirdar must have been taken with him.

You don't know any more about his father than you have told me ?" "Very little.

Once, in talking with his wife, she told me that her husband had been in a commercial house, in Alexandria, for a year; but the place was burned down at the time of the bombardment.

Being thus out of harness, he became an assistant to one of the army contractors and, when things settled down at Cairo, obtained a berth as interpreter, with the temporary rank of captain, on Hicks Pasha's staff, as he also spoke Arabic fluently.