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Excerpt from Zohrab, Vol. 2 of 3: The Hostage Approaching the person on the present occasion, he soon discovered that all was not right. Sadek was standing thoughtfully loung ing in the ante-room, with one hand stuck in his girdle and one foot against the wall. Hashim's vivacity had forsaken him; and the chief physician, the Hakim Bashi, was about taking his departure, with his eyebrows running under his cap, with an air of apprehension that might have suited some wretch on the verge of life and death. The expert barber, deeply learned in all the circumstances of time, place, and opportunity. 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.