Identifier: atcourtofamrna00gray (find matches)
Title: At the court of the Amîr : a narrative
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Gray, John Alfred Abd al-Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, d. 1901
Subjects: Personal Narratives
Publisher: London : R. Bentley and Son
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ation, His Highness is Afghan—an Afghan ofthe Afghans, and perhaps the finest specimen of hisrace-—but yet an Oriental. We English in his service, dazzled by the glamourof his strong personality and charmed by the kindlycourtesy of his manner, grew to feel an attachmentstrong and personal to His Highness; but there werethose among us of the more observant who felt, asthe years passed, that we were but as Pawns onthe chess-board of this Prince, to be swept off withan unshrinking hand when a move in the game mightneed it. Nevertheless, though life at an Oriental Courtoffers so little that is congenial to the tastes of aneducated Englishman; where, indeed, each man strivesto harm his neighbour; where truth is not, norhonour; where Yice and Villainy walk at noondayunveiled, such is the fascination of the Man that, hadone none to consider but ones self, the temptation,for his sake, to re-enter the life would be almostirresistible, THE END. SIMMONS 4 BOTTEN, LIMITED, PRINTERS, LONDON. /
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