She seems to have had from the Bedouins a fair five
hundred pounds' worth of respect, and not much more.
{18} She spoke it, I dare say, in English; the words would not be
the less effective for being spoken in an unknown tongue. Lady
Hester, I believe, never learnt to speak the Arabic with a perfect
accent.
{19} The proceedings thus described to me by Lady Hester as having
taken place during her illness, were afterwards re-enacted at the
time of her death. Since I wrote the words to which this note is
appended, I received from Warburton an interesting account of the
heroine's death, or rather the circumstances attending the
discovery of the event; and I caused it to be printed in the former
editions of this work. I must now give up the borrowed ornament,
and omit my extract from my friend's letter, for the rightful owner
has reprinted it in "The Crescent and the Cross." I know what a
sacrifice I am making, for in noticing the first edition of this
book reviewers turned aside from the text to the note, and remarked
upon the interesting information which Warburton's letter
contained. [This narrative is reproduced in an Appendix to the
present edition.
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