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And the poor mother, her face suffused with tears, prostrates herself
before the Virgin, praying, beating her breast, invoking with her
tongue and hand and heart; while Farouche returns to his coop to hatch
under his three-cornered hat, the famous Jesuit-egg of intrigue. That
hat, which can outwit the monk's hood and the hundred fabled devils
under it, that hat, with its many gargoyles, a visible symbol of the
leaky conscience of the Jesuit, that hat, O Khalid, which you would
have kicked out of your house, has eventually succeeded in ousting
YOU, and will do its mighty best yet to send you to the Bosphorus.
Indeed, to serve their purpose, these honest servitors of Jesus will
even act as spies to the criminal Government of Abd'ul-Hamid. Read
Shakib's account.
"About a fortnight after Khalid's banishment from home," he writes, "a
booklet was published in Beirut, setting forth the history of Ignatius
Loyola and the purports and intents of Jesuitism. On the cover it was
expressly declared that the booklet is translated from the English,
and the Jesuits, who are noted for their scholarly attainments, could
have discovered this for themselves without the explicit declaration.
But they did not deem it necessary to make such a discovery then. It
seemed rather imperative to maintain the contrary and try to prove
it. Now, Khalid having received a copy of this booklet from a friend
in Beirut, reads it and writes back, saying that it is not a
translation but a mutilation, rather, of one of Thomas Carlyle's
Latter-Day Pamphlets entitled _Jesuitism_. This letter must have
reached them together with Father Farouche's report on Khalid's
infidelity, just about the time the booklet was circulating in
Baalbek. For in the following Number of their _Weekly Journal_ an
article, stuffed and padded with execrations and anathema, is
published against the book and its anonymous author. From this I quote
the following, which is by no means the most erring and most poisonous
of their shafts.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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