A Doffed Coronet

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Excerpt from A Doffed Coronet: A True StoryNothing in my two years' Egyptian experience as the wife of a man engaged on a secret mission offered a clew to the enigma, and I sat down in absolute be Wilderment, trying to puzzle it out. Of a truth, I felt vaguely uneasy, and I am ashamed to say that for a second or two, in the very innermost recesses of my brain, there lurked a sort of superstitious fear.Suddenly, from the other side of the river, there rose a dismal, shrill whimper, rising and swelling to a ghast ly shriek, and ending in a long-drawn, miserable wail, and so ruf¿ed were. My nerves that I started to my feet, although I well knew that it was only a jackal sing ing at the moon.These were unquiet times. The rebellion of Arabi Pasha had but recently been quelled, and the so - called peace of Egypt was a mere thin crust, barely covering the unrest Of Islam. The Khedive was desperately clinging to his tottering throne, and the British army of occupation had become so unpopular that all for eigners were held in distrust and hatred by natives high and low. Indeed, the whole atmosphere was preg nant with strife, intrigue, and treachery.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.