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CHAPTER 33. WHAT CAME OF LOOKING THROUGH A LATTICE
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He began in accents which halted not a little. By degrees his voice grew firmer. Words came from him with greater fluency1.
‘I am not yet forty. So when I tell you that twenty years ago I was a mere2 youth I am stating what is a sufficiently3 obvious truth. It is twenty years ago since the events of which I am going to speak transpired5.
‘I lost both my parents when I was quite a lad, and by their death I was left in a position in which I was, to an unusual extent in one so young, my own master. I was ever of a rambling6 turn of mind, and when, at the mature age of eighteen, I left school, I decided7 that I should learn more from travel than from sojourn8 at a university. So, since there was no one to say me nay9, instead of going either to Oxford10 or Cambridge, I went abroad. After a few months I found myself in Egypt,—I was down with fever at Shepheard’s Hotel in Cairo. I had caught it by drinking polluted water during an excursion with some Bedouins to Palmyra.
‘When the fever had left me I went out one night into the town in search of amusement. I went, unaccompanied, into the native quarter, not a wise thing to do, especially at night, but at eighteen one is not always wise, and I was weary of the monotony of the sick-room, and eager for something which had in it a spice of adventure. I found myself in a street which I have reason to believe is no longer existing. It had a French name, and was called the Rue11 de Rabagas,—I saw the name on the corner as I turned into it, and it has left an impress on the tablets of my memory which is never likely to be
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concoction
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amazement
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unnatural
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turpitude
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portrayal
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