EGYPT UNDER LIQUIDATION. 229 the English Minister of Finance, Mr. Rivers Wilson, and of Nubar. An English official in the Egyptian service, long since dead, who had a perfect mania for introducing people to one another, told me that Prince Tewfik was anxious to make my acquaintance. I was presented to the Prince, who then, as always, received me with great amiability, and had begun to answer some commonplace remark I had made, when he became aware that his father's eyes were watching us from beneath his shaggy eyebrows.

Tewfik suddenly stopped in his reply, and turned away without saying another word. I asked my introducer if I had said anything to give offence.

** Oh no,** he replied ; *' he only left you because he saw his father had noticed your being in conversation with him/' The plain truth was, that Tewfik was\ cowed by his father as long as the latter reigned, and that up to the very end of his life he never quite shook off the terror which his father had inspired.

A man of twenty-seven, spare of figure, with a plain but not unkindly face, gifted with good intentions, but with narrow views ; a devout believer in Islam; a Turk of the Turks, imbued with all the / -prejudices of his race and caste against the Giaour / and against Christian civilization ; a good husband ; [ a man, according to Oriental ideas, of moral domestic \ life ; a frugal administrator ; — such was the Prince, who, by the irony of fate, became the successor of y Ismail the Magnificent. / The Treasury was empty at the date of Tewfik s \