THE DEPOSITION OF ISMAIL PASHA. 219 Standing in his presence. The son was nervous, pale, agitated ; the father was perfectly self-possessed, calm , and impassive. Of what may have passed between them privately there is no record. But I should doubt there having been any confidential communication. In as far as I can learn, Ismail, after recognizing his son as the reigning Khedive, announced that he should leave for Alexandria on the following day, and should thence sail for Europe ; and then retired to the harem. His departure, however, was delayed, on one pretext or another for some days longer. He needed, or repre-' sented that he needed, a large sum of gold for the expenses of his journey — a demand which did not seem unreasonable in itself, as he originally proposed to take with him all his personal attendants, and three hundred ladies of the Vice-regal harem. He tried to get the consent of the Sultan to his taking up his abode at Smyrna ; but his request did not meet with any support from his successor, on the grounds, though probably not the avowed grounds, that Smyrna was too near to Egypt, and that if the ex-Khedive was living in Turkish territory, his facilities for intriguing would be greater than if he were residing as an exile in Europe. The money difficulty was arranged somehow or other, and within a week from his deposition the Khedive left Egypt for Naples on board the Khedivial steam-yacht, the Mahrotissa, which he had had built for him in England previous to the optoing of the Suez Canal. He departed from Alexandria with all the military honours due to his