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a state of turmoil for over a decade, was ending Egyptian troops (led, of course, by British officers) had reconquered most of the lost territory,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and some persons who had been given up for lost had miraculously reappeared The escape of Slatin Pasha, formerly Slatin Bey, was perhaps the most astonishing example of well-nigh miraculous survival,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but there were others,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including that of Father Ohrwalder and two of the nuns of his mission, who had endured seven years of slavery and torture before making good their escape.
It was this last case that gave me the idea of inventing a family of kindly missionaries as foster parents for Nefret, both of whose real parents (I explained) had perished of disease and hardship shortly after their arrival. Protected by their loyal converts, the kindly religious persons had escaped the ravages of the dervishes but had not dared leave the security of their remote and humble village while the country was so disturbed.
Emerson remarked that in his experience loyal converts were usually the first to pop their spiritual leaders into the cook pot, but I thought it a most convincing fabrication and so, to judge by the results, did the press. I had stuck to the truth whenever I could- a paramount rule when one concyilai:
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