AN" ARAB MARRIAGE.
The magnificent extravagance of the late Khedive is well exemplified in the small palace he built for the Empress Eugenie, and which has never been occupied since. Here too, an instance of thorough Oriental arbitrariness occurred. The Empress, while thanking the Khedive for the magnificent reception he had given to her, happened to say that the only thing she had not seen was an Arab marriage. " Indeed," said the Khedive, " this shall soon be remedied." So he sent for his A.D.C., gave him one of his Circassian slaves from the harem, presented him with a large dowry, and told the astonished official that everything was to be ready in two days. Accordingly on the second day there was a grand marriage a T Arabe. The Empress was greatly pleased, and the A.D.C., a man far more European than Egyptian, and who spoke several European languages splendidly, found himself indissolubly attached to a Mahommedan wife, while all along it had been the dream of his his life to marry a European lady, one educated like himself, and with whom he could associate. But he knew he dared not refuse, and so an accident settled his whole life.—" Three Months in the Soudan," by Ernestine Sartorious.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2726, 17 June 1885, Page 3
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207AN" ARAB MARRIAGE. Kumara Times, Issue 2726, 17 June 1885, Page 3
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