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Excerpt from In Cairo Mr Dear Friend: These impressions of mine, I confess it eagerly, were recorded most especially for my own pleasure. But then, when it occurred to me to show them to others, the public of which I thought, as embraced by that word of indefinite boundaries, was only the public which already had learned to love Cairo, and which, as I hoped, might like to verify its impressions and revive the old affection in these pages. Yet now I am even bolder, and I shall be disappointed if what I have written turns out to be meaningless even to a larger public - to people who do not know Cairo as yet, but whom I would lead to the suspicion that it is adorable among the great cities. 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.