mutessarif's

Updated: May 4, 2025

Humor was quite gone out of them, and when the clergyman suggested that it was a compliment to be sent out to be shot at flattering, at any rate, to the prowess of the Allies a Frenchman emphatically denied it. "Pas du tout!" he exploded. While we talked there was a knock at the front door, and through the grating we saw the red fez and vaguely smiling visage of the mutessarif's secretary.

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