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Excerpt from In the Levant
Changes there have been in Palestine, better roads, better hotels, better organizations for con ducting the steps Of irreverent sight-seers among historic ruins the commercial value Of which the Orientals appreciate Constantinople itself has taken new steps in the emancipation of its women and the adoption of Frank ways; last winter, in Cairo, I found an enormous superimposition Of Eu ropean life, and a wonderful change in the admin istration Of justice, Of finance, of the laying and collection of taxes, Of agricultural production, Of improved irrigation, in the physical well-being of the Fellaheen, all and entirely due to the still nu spent English sense Of duty and love of order, and the splendid, conquering, what shall I call it?
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