Although he was jolly, and the effects of his drinking bout still lingered in his brain, he forgot nothing.





The coal glowed in the grate with a splendid blaze: all the gas-burners were lighted, and so were everybody's eyes. In one I saw a worthy citizen squatting on his mat, holding a struggling child between his knees, whose tangled hair he was overhauling for those incumbrances with which the Egyptians since the time of Pharaohs have been rich.