George Walker At Suez (PDF, MOBI, EPUB, FB2, TEXT)
erest every time I blew my nose or relieved my
huskiness by a slight cough;--they would not have been so intimate
with that surgeon from St. Bartholomew's who dined with them twice
at the Albion; nor would they have gone to work directly that my
back was turned, and have done those very things which they could
not have done had I remained at home. Be that as it may, I was
frightened and went to Cairo, and while there I made a trip to Suez
for a week.
I was not happy at Cairo, for I knew nobody there, and the people at
the hotel were, as I thought, uncivil. It seemed to me as though I
were allowed to go in and out merely by sufferance; and yet I paid
my bill regularly every week. The house was full of company, but
the company was made up of parties of twos and threes, and they all
seemed to have their own friends. I did make attempts to overcome
that terrible British exclusiveness, that noli me tangere with which
an Englishman arms himself; and in which he thinks it necessary to
envelop his wife; but it
