He pondered a moment, and would have done it, I think, but his mother arrived, then, and interfered.

Her tears moved me--I never can look upon the tears of woman with indifference--and I said I would give her a hundred to jump off, too.
But it was a failure.

The Arabs are too high-priced in Egypt.

They put on airs unbecoming to such savages.
We descended, hot and out of humor.

The dragoman lit candles, and we all entered a hole near the base of the pyramid, attended by a crazy rabble of Arabs who thrust their services upon us uninvited.