The Sheik

By Hull, E. M.

Book Id: WPLBN0000621271
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Sheik
Author:	Hull, E. M.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: ?Are you coming in to watch the dancing, Lady Conway?? ?I most decidedly am not. I thoroughly disapprove of the expedition of which this dance is the inauguration. I consider that even by contemplating such a tour alone into the desert with no chaperon or attendant of her own sex, with only native camel drivers and servants, Diana Mayo is behaving with a recklessness and impropriety that is calculated to cast a slur not only on her own reputation, but also on the prestige of her country. I blush to think of it. We English cannot be too careful of our behavior abroad. No opportunity is slight enough for our continental neighbours to cast stones, and this opportunity is very far from being slight. It is the maddest piece of unprincipled folly I have ever heard of.? ?Oh, come, Lady Conway! It?s not quite so bad as all that. It is certainly unconventional and?er?probably not quite wise, but remember Miss Mayo?s unusual upbringing??? ?I am not forgetting her unusual upbringing,? interrupted Lady Conway. ?It has been deplorable. But nothing can excuse this scandalous escapade. I knew her mother years ago, and I took it upon myself to expostulate both with Diana and her brother, but Sir Aubrey is hedged around with an egotistical complacency that would defy a pickaxe to penetrate. According to him a Mayo is beyond criticism, and his sister?s reputation her own to deal with. The girl herself seemed, frankly, not to understand the seriousness of her position, and was very flippant and not a little rude.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Sheik, 1 -- E. M. Hull, 1 -- Chapter I, 1 -- Chapter III, 25 -- Chapter IV, 37 -- Chapter V, 47 -- Chapter VI, 57 -- Chapter VII, 72 -- Chapter VIII, 84 -- Chapter IX, 96 -- Chapter X, 104