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Gilbert Parker. Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete
Table of Contents
A FOREWORD
WHILE THE LAMP HOLDS OUT TO BURN
THE PRICE OF THE GRINDSTONE—AND THE DRUM
THE DESERTION OF MAHOMMED SELIM
ON THE REEF OF NORMAN’S WOE
FIELDING HAD AN ORDERLY
THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE
A TREATY OF PEACE
AT THE MERCY OF TIBERIUS
ALL THE WORLD’S MAD
THE MAN AT THE WHEEL
A TYRANT AND A LADY
A YOUNG LION OF DEDAN
HE WOULD NOT BE DENIED
THE FLOWER OF THE FLOCK
“‘E was a flower,” said Henry Withers of the Sick Horse Depot
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
GLOSSARY
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Gilbert Parker
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“‘While the lamp holds out to burn...’” said Dicky, and lighted another cigarette.
Precisely at seven o’clock Heatherby appeared. He had on a dress-suit, brown and rusty, a white tie made of a handkerchief torn in two, and a pair of patent leather shoes, scraggy and cracked.
