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PYRAMID AND TEMPLE
were already in his pocket, and now there’s this business of
Dettenberg’s on top of it. It was as impenetrable to him as
the sphinx and the dead king. His tendency to cling to easy
ideas worked feverishly to dispose of the new foreign bodies.
He rubbed his hands and blinked his eyelids. Dettenberg
elaborated his attacks on England and exercised his nation-
alistic impulses unrestrained by any social instinct. Aller
didn’t know much about the English. As to syphilis, the
soldiers in the garrison counted only as consumers and in a
race with greater powers of natural resistance reinforced by
military drill the percentage remained insignificant. English
doctors were weak at diagnosis and better at prescriptions.
One had called trachoma a vascular disease. They drank too
much, but were otherwise decent chaps.
You might have interpreted Aller’s disinclination for
political problems as anarchist dialectic making fun of the
bourgeois; but nothing would have been wider of the mark.
The ceterum censeo of the Anglophobe shattered his amiable
remoteness. How could the expulsion of the English help in
the fight against bilharzia? He asked in all honesty.
That, said Dettenberg, must be left to the Egyptians to
decide.
Aller opened his blazing eyes: ‘Those SchweinigelV
These superficial terms were not of the slightest assis-
tance, rejoined Dettenberg with dignity.
Very well: Aller confirmed it with all possible decision.
There was a tendency to septic conditions inherent in their
blood, which made the whole business harder. In the south
it was incomparably easier; the Sudanese can be turned into
excellent hospital orderlies.
Dettenberg objected to the one-sided tone of the dis-
cussion. It wasn’t only a question of sick and healthy. It
would be more estimable to distinguish them as free men or
slaves. Ninety per cent, of the population backed Zaghlul.
Joshua Dohn confirmed the popularity of the tribune,
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were already in his pocket, and now there’s this business of
Dettenberg’s on top of it. It was as impenetrable to him as
the sphinx and the dead king. His tendency to cling to easy
ideas worked feverishly to dispose of the new foreign bodies.
He rubbed his hands and blinked his eyelids. Dettenberg
elaborated his attacks on England and exercised his nation-
alistic impulses unrestrained by any social instinct. Aller
didn’t know much about the English. As to syphilis, the
soldiers in the garrison counted only as consumers and in a
race with greater powers of natural resistance reinforced by
military drill the percentage remained insignificant. English
doctors were weak at diagnosis and better at prescriptions.
One had called trachoma a vascular disease. They drank too
much, but were otherwise decent chaps.
You might have interpreted Aller’s disinclination for
political problems as anarchist dialectic making fun of the
bourgeois; but nothing would have been wider of the mark.
The ceterum censeo of the Anglophobe shattered his amiable
remoteness. How could the expulsion of the English help in
the fight against bilharzia? He asked in all honesty.
That, said Dettenberg, must be left to the Egyptians to
decide.
Aller opened his blazing eyes: ‘Those SchweinigelV
These superficial terms were not of the slightest assis-
tance, rejoined Dettenberg with dignity.
Very well: Aller confirmed it with all possible decision.
There was a tendency to septic conditions inherent in their
blood, which made the whole business harder. In the south
it was incomparably easier; the Sudanese can be turned into
excellent hospital orderlies.
Dettenberg objected to the one-sided tone of the dis-
cussion. It wasn’t only a question of sick and healthy. It
would be more estimable to distinguish them as free men or
slaves. Ninety per cent, of the population backed Zaghlul.
Joshua Dohn confirmed the popularity of the tribune,
122