Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 231
he knew.Suddenly a bright idea struck him: Why could he not be a Champion of all these jewelers and save them from their fate ?He had not spent days compiling abstruse problems on the tilingOf the vestibule for nothing, so he did not hesitate, But with confidence suggested if their cause in him… … BEN ALI THE EGYPTIAN. 699 How they crowded on the balustrade that ran around the palace,When Ben Ali was before His Royal Majesty the King!And when Ali rose to meet him, how the cheers burst forth to greet him — Sail in, Benny ! You re the boy! — until they made the welkin ring !
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