PREFACE
Lord George Herbert is universally acknowledged to be the handsomest man in the English nobility. ‘It will not be hospitable to allow you to keep on such wet clothes.’ My clothes were perfectly dry, but the winks and smiles that the young ladies exchanged as they began to disrobe me led me cheerfully to submit while they proceeded to divest me of every article of clothing. My discipline when a midshipman made this easy for me to do; I rose hand over hand and safely reached the window through which I was assisted by the ladies into the perfumed air of an elegant apartment richly furnished and elegantly lighted. Wait where you are.’ She spoke in French, which is the common medium of communication among the different nations inhabiting the shores of the Mediterranean, and which had become familiar to me. CHAPTER ONE
ABDALLAH PASHA’S SERAGLIO
Her British Majesty’s Ship Antler, of which I was in command, lay becalmed one afternoon off the coast of Morocco. My discipline when a midshipman made this easy for me to do; I rose hand over hand and safely reached the window through which
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