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of local circumstances, and the shabby place of 

 drogman of Aboukir was kept up. The poor Jew 

 informed us he had learnt that his little pension 

 was to be torn from hiin. Fie added, with a noble 

 simplicity : / have been always perfectly tranquil. 

 I would have displayed the honourable warrants with 

 which my ancestors were furnished, the attestations of 

 the important services which they have rendered to 

 the French nation, the proofs of the active zeal for its 

 interests, which has animated myself, and it is im- 

 possible that the justice of a government to which I 

 am attached, should have permitted me to be deprived 

 of the means of existence. We were cautious not 

 to disturb his affecting security ; but I said to mv 

 companion : The good man is simple, poor, and 

 perhaps necessary ; he will not be listened to : he 

 will be sacrificed, without the least attention being 

 paid to his rights, to his services, any more than 

 to his remonstrances. Such sacrifices as these are 

 the usual pleasures of governments, and the most 

 common acts of their justice. 



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The house of MalUm-Yousef* (this is the name 

 of the Jew) is in a delightful situation : it is suffi- 



* The word Mallum answers to that of master: Mallum 

 Yousef, Master Joseph. This is the appellation which the Turks 

 give to those whom they do not choose to distinguish, but 

 whom, however, they raise rather «bove the lowest classes of 

 tlit people. 



ciently 



