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Updated: May 9, 2025
Butheita's heart is oppressed; the sarechsme, Mohammed Ali, is thoughtful and grave. Once Butheita raises her arm and points to some towering objects defined sharply against the sky in the distance. "See, stranger, see; those are the grand monuments of our kings, the Pharaohs, the pyramids, and there lies Sakkara, where the graves of the holy oxen are to be seen.
Now, surrounded by his bim bashis and boulouk bashis, the sarechsme entered the apartment of the viceroy, Cousrouf Pacha, who was awaiting him. In utter disregard of deference and usage, the general did not wait to be addressed by the viceroy.
From the day of their first meeting, when Cousrouf Pacha appointed Mohammed Ali sarechsme, the new general had proved his bravery and his shrewdness in many a skirmish and battle with the Mamelukes. He had already captured from them two strongholds, and had returned victorious from every battle with them. Cousrouf praised his fortune at having such a general at his side.
I have received no other money- -I swear to this by Allah and the prophet. Go to my soldiers and ask them if this is not true, and then do as you think proper." "Long live Mohammed Ali! Long live the generous sarechsme!" cried one of the soldiers, and the cry was taken up and repeated by all the rest. "It is needless to go to the soldiers, for the sarechsme tells the truth.
"Not I, highness," says Mohammed, smiling. "Not I, the sarechsme, but that wild, insolent boy, Mohammed, of whom no trace now remains. He is buried in the sea, at the place where the waves closed over Masa. Yet, if that Mohammed still lived and heard what you say, he would bow down in the dust before the great man who condescends to confess that he regrets what he has done.
"Wake up, Cousrouf! wake up, thou Viceroy of Egypt, wake up!" Cousrouf starts and stares at him. "What is it? Who calls me?" "Your devoted servant, the sarechsme by your grace, Mohammed Ali, calls you." "I know by your voice that you have come to kill me!" cried Cousrouf, springing to his feet. Mohammed slowly shook his head.
Loud and derisive laughter resounds from Mohammed Ali's lips. "Really the sarechsme is very ill, and in a fearful state of excitement! His head may be affected by it. It may become dangerous." The physician prescribes cooling applications for his head, and goes in person to superintend their preparation. The door has hardly closed behind the physician, when Mohammed bounds from his bed.
"You are right, both of us are servants, the grand-sultan is master of us both; but I am his representative here, and it therefore follows that the proud sarechsme need not blush when I call him my faithful servant, as I stand for him in the place of the grand- sultan.
Read!" The sarechsme unfolded the paper, and read in a loud voice the firman which deposed Cousrouf from the office of viceroy. "For he has performed its duties badly, and not proved worthy of our favor. He has been vanquished by rebels, and has sought safety in flight, instead of dying in the fulfilment of his duty.
Mohammed descends with the slave to the court-yard. The latter hastily summons the equerry, and delivers his master's message. The beautiful horses, with their splendid trappings, are now led before Mohammed. The new sarechsme selects the handsomest and best; he wishes to show the viceroy that he can judge of the beauty and fire of a horse.
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