. The life and correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere, bart. MEHEMET ALI, AS WE FOUND HIM PLAYING BILLIARDS WITH IBRAHIM PACHAIN THE SHUBRA PALACE. November 21, 2^>— JWia: ft//* 1844-6.] SICK LEAVE TO ENGLAND. 49 garden, at Shoubra, where, while Kate and her sister andMrs. Melvill walked in the beautiful gardens, I went inwith Sir Robert Oliver and Colonel Barnett, the Consul-General, to try to get a glimpse of the Pacha. We foundhim playing billiards with Ibrahim, and after seeing themfinish their game, went into the divan, where the old Pacha,*whether from having given h
. The life and correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere, bart. MEHEMET ALI, AS WE FOUND HIM PLAYING BILLIARDS WITH IBRAHIM PACHAIN THE SHUBRA PALACE. November 21, 2^>— JWia: ft//* 1844-6.] SICK LEAVE TO ENGLAND. 49 garden, at Shoubra, where, while Kate and her sister andMrs. Melvill walked in the beautiful gardens, I went inwith Sir Robert Oliver and Colonel Barnett, the Consul-General, to try to get a glimpse of the Pacha. We foundhim playing billiards with Ibrahim, and after seeing themfinish their game, went into the divan, where the old Pacha,*whether from having given his son a beating, or from someother cause, was in such spirits as Colonel Barnett saidwere of late quite unusual. He talked and laughed withthe Colonel and Sir Robert, and all his observations andquestions impressed me with the idea that, whatever elsehe might be, he was a very well-informed and shrewd oldgentleman for a Turk. Frere was too much out of health to make it expedientfor him to return to England in the midst of winter. Heand Mrs. Frere, therefore, remained some time at Malta,staying at the house of his uncle, John Hookham they travelled slowly t
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