I went and shoved the books into my luggage here and there, gave Rashid orders to send on the clothes, took leave of my kind hosts, and drove down in a hurry to the quay. It was not till some time after I arrived in England that I realised that the volumes which he had presented to me were a complete Bulac Edition of the _Thousand and One Nights_--a valuable book--which is my greatest treasure. Nor have I ever had the chance of thanking the giver in a manner worthy of the gift, and wiping out the bad impression left by my ill-temper, for a letter which I wrote from England never reached him I am told, and when I next was in his country the Mu'allim Costantin had gone where kindness, patience, courtesy, and all his other virtues are, I hope, rewarded. GLASGOW: W. COLLIN'S SONS AND CO. LTD. * * * * * +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Typographical errors corrected in text: | | | | Page 212: Yusuf replaced with Yusuf | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+