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Excerpt from Under the Crescent It was with no small amount of trepidation that I placed my modest card upon the silver salver and watched the neat little maid carry it through mysterious velvety curtains to a region beyond, from where presently there came a welcoming laugh, and a merry, "Do come in." Would she be changed? Would the title have robbed my friend of her simplicity? Would the power of her money have altered her perspective? And would the bitterness of her Oriental life have subtracted from the sweetness of her personality? I hoped and prayed not. But meeting old friends is a risky business at best, especially if the friend in question has, by a marvelous trick of fate, become, over night as it were, an Egyptian Princess. That morning a city paper carried a double column cut of Princess Hassan seated upon an ornate chair, which the reporter had glibly called "the throne of Cleopatra." At the hotel desk I had asked timidly for "The Princess," and received the information that "Her Highness" would see me. The pomp and formality struck terror to my democratic heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.