d as Viceroy of Egypt.

{334} Alexis was a clair-voyant who created some sensation in London
about fifty years ago. One evening at Lansdowne House he was reading
people's thoughts and describing their houses from the lines in their
hands, and a few leading questions. The old Marquess asked my mother to
let Alexis read her thoughts, and, I suppose, impressed by her _grand
air_ and statuesque beauty, imagining that she would think about some
great hero of ancient days, he said, after careful inspection of her
hand, 'Madame vous pensez a Jules Cesar.' She shook her head and told
him to try again. His next guess was Alexander the Great. She smiled
and said, 'Non, Monsieur, je pensais a mon fidele domestique negre,
Hassan.' He then described her house as something akin to Lansdowne
House--vast rooms, splendid pictures, etc. She laughed and told him she
lived in 'une maison fort modeste et tant soi peu bourgeois,' which
elicited his angry exclamation that she had not faith enough, _i.e._ that
she did not help him.

{336} See Introduction, p. 6.

{350} According to tradition, the first Christian church in Egypt was
built by St. Mark the Evangelist at Baucalis near Alexandria, and
Christianity was introduced into Abyssinia under Athanasius Patriarch of
Alexandria from 236 to 273. The authority of the Egyptian Coptic
Patriarch is still paramount in Abyssinia, where he counts his adherents
by the million.

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