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The rest was written in rather barbarous iambics; and the sentiments were quite as barbarous as the verse. It told the whole story, and I ran rapidly over it, translating here and there for the benefit of my companions. The arrival of the Baron d'Ezonville recalled our own with curious exactness, except that he came with one servant only.
If they understood that intention of mine, they would hardly be so shortsighted as to set me adrift in my shirt like a second Baron d'Ezonville, or so unjust as to kill poor old Stefanopoulos as they had killed his ancestor. Besides, as I comforted myself by repeating, they were a good-hearted race; unsophisticated, of course, but thoroughly good-hearted.
The pasha stroked his beard as he observed in a calm tone: "The last time a Stefanopoulos tried to sell Neopalia the people killed him, and turned the purchaser he was a Frenchman, a Baron d'Ezonville adrift in an open boat, with nothing on but his shirt." "Good heavens! Was that recently?" "No; two hundred years ago. But it's a conservative part of the world, you know." And his excellency smiled.
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