With them--for the most sinful motives, as Rashid averred, and, I suppose, believed--he was all sugar; but when he came back to the house he was as grumpy as could be.

Rashid would have destroyed him at a nod from me one evening when he said: 'I think I must have left my glasses over at the school.

Will you be good enough to go and ask ?' 'Now your Honour knows how we feel when we meet a man like that; and there are many such among the Franks,' my servant whispered in my ear as I went out obediently.

'By Allah, it is not to be endured!' The parson occupied the only bedroom; and I slept out upon the balcony on his account.

Yet he complained of certain of my garments hanging in his room, and flung them out.