THE "CONDOMINIUM." 511 I remember, too, his telling me about the same time that he had been greatly troubled by the sufferings of his fellow-countrymen during the Armenian atrocities, and still more by the agitation raised for foreign intervention on their behalf.

" My compatriots/' to quote his remarks at the time, "come to me, as the best known of Armenian statesmen, and ask me to take the lead in demanding intervention. But my common sense tells me there is not a single Power in Europe which is prepared to go to war for the sake of coercing Turkey ; and yet without war all the moral sympathy in the world is not only useless in itself, but tends to aggravate the -condition of the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire. I can say this to a foreign friend, but if I say it to an Armenian, he thinks I am indifferent to my own people and my own faith." Up to the time when his illness assumed an aggravated form, he cherished the hope of getting back to Cairo. " I want," he remarked, " once more to sit on the steps of my home in the evenings and gaze again at the stars, which one never really sees in Europe." During the last period of his illness he suffered much from pain, but he retained consciousness almost to the last ; and to the end, as his family have told me, his conversation, when he was able to talk, was always about Egypt. He was buried, by his own wish, in the Armenian cemetery at Alexandria, and his funeral was attended by the chief notabilities of Egypt, native, Levantine, foreign, and British ;