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combined fleets, led by England, off Dulcigno, led 

 to a cessation of hostilities and confirmed the pos- 

 session of Dulcigno to Montenegro. To this day the 

 memory of Gladstone is venerated in Montenegro, 

 and all Englishmen are treated with respect, so 

 grateful are they for the timely service done them in 

 their need. 



I was probably the only Englishman in Monte- 

 negro, unless by chance there might have been one 

 in Cetinje, and my fame had evidently spread far 

 and wide. Hardly a day passed but that some 

 queer visitor did not find his way up to my little 

 room. Once I was accosted in very fair English by 

 an Armenian priest who had been in England, on a 

 begging expedition, of course. He showed me his 

 collecting-book, in which figured the names of some 

 of our bishops. To my great relief he didn't beg 

 of me ; to my surprise also, for I had met these 

 priests before. In fact, one of them was a passenger 

 in the steamer I had left quite recently, who was 

 then actually on his way to England, and spoke of 

 walking across Europe from Trieste to the English 

 Channel as if it was the ordinary way of proceeding. 

 He was rather downcast when I told him of the new 

 Aliens Act, which would bar his landing in England 

 unless he had a certain sum of money in his posses- 

 sion. He had heard nothing about it, but I thought 

 it only fair to warn him ; it would be much better 



