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Next post she wangled him-"on Richard's solemn oath that he would act with 'unusual' prudence"-was the consulship at Damascus . . . "the dream of my childhood ... I am to live amongst the Bedawin Arab chiefs; I shall smell the desert air; I shall have tents, horses, weapons, and be free. . . ." They arrived with a museum load of African, South American and Indian bric-a-brac and five dogs-to which they soon added twelve horses, three goats, a camel, a snow-white donkey, a pet lamb and a baby panther (which the horrified peasants poisoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Eccentrics | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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