“It is a fool’s reasoning. Because he was a stranger and an infidel, so has he been told of dark things done to those who desecrate our faith.”
“Had he been an Egyptian or a Turk—”
“I should slay him, were he Ismail himself. Mine own is mine own, as Mahomet hath said. The man shall die—and who shall save him? Not even the Sultan himself.”
“There are concessions in the Fayoum—you have sought them long.”
“Bah!”
“There is the Grand Cordon of the Mejidieh; there is a way to it, Excellency.”
“The man’s blood!”
“There is a high office to be vacant soon, near to the person of the Khedive, with divers moneys and loans—”
“To see Donovan Pasha cringe and beg is better.”
“There is that mercy which one day you may have to ask for yourself or for your own—”