FEMALE HOSTAGESAnother custom inaugurated by this sovereign was to require that therulers of provinces should send to the Yamato Court female hostages. It was to beregretted that, so far, al-Jamal had not displayed equal good sense. Since the Khedive had been saved from the mobs ofrebellion by the British Army and the fleet of the Royal Navy inAlexandria harbour, Egypt had become, in all but name, a Britishprotectorate. The Dervish had come to his feet with his broadsword drawn backlike a forester about to make the first cut on the trunk of a tree.
'I don't blamehim. The secretary closedthe door. On the other hand, the incidents attributed to this longinterval are not by any means of such a nature as to suggestdeliberate fabrication. As he started to climb,his skirts flapped around his legs, hampering his movements.
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