His Excellency’s English
Governess

By
SYDNEY C. GRIER
AUTHOR OF “A CROWNED QUEEN,”
“LIKE ANOTHER HELEN,” “THE
WARDEN OF THE MARCHES,” Etc.


(Fourth in the Modern East series)


BOSTON
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
MDCCCCII

COPYRIGHT.

Copyright, 1902
By L. C. Page & Company
(Incorporated)



Published June, 1902

CONTENTS.

I. A GIRL GRADUATE

II. “THERE WAS A SOUND OF REVELRY BY NIGHT”

III. A MOST ADVANTAGEOUS OFFER

IV. THE SHINING EAST

V. A NEW EXPERIENCE

VI. A PERIOD OF PROBATION

VII. “IN INMOST BAGDAT”

VIII. A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE

IX. LITERATURE AND POLITICS

X. A CUP OF COFFEE

XI. A DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT

XII. IN SEARCH OF HEALTH

XIII. INSTRUCTION AND INTROSPECTION

XIV. A SPOKE IN HIS WHEEL

XV. AFTER ALL——

XVI. A MURDEROUS INTENT

XVII. AN IDYLL, AND ITS ENDING

XVIII. GATHERING CLOUDS

XIX. “BETWIXT MY LOVE AND ME”

XX. INTERCEPTED LETTERS

XXI. CONFEDERATES

XXII. A TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION

XXIII. THE END OF EVERYTHING

XXIV. PRISONERS

XXV. “THE VOICE OF ENGLAND IN THE EAST”

XXVI. A DREAD TRIBUNAL

XXVII. PRACTICAL JOKES

FOOTNOTES

HIS EXCELLENCY’S ENGLISH
GOVERNESS

CHAPTER I.
A GIRL GRADUATE.

It was Presentation-day at the University of London. The date wassomewhere in the latter half of the present century,—not this year,nor last year, nor the year before that, when you, dear reader, oryour brother or cousin, may have graced the scene in cap and gown—butso long ago that the graduates and undergraduates of to-day were stillin the nursery taking practical lessons as to the value of tactualperception, or forcing an undesired entrance into the realms ofknowledge by way of the spelling-book and the Latin Primer. The daywas a lovely one in May, and the spring sunshine poured

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