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 | | This had its effect, and though the unfortunate Khedive was doing his best to meet his engagements, he was denounced as a fraudulent borrower and a monster, while pathetic appeals besieged the governments of England and France to come to the rescue of the poor ill-used creditors of Egypt. |
 | | The lands of the Khedive and his family, amounting in all to about one million acres, were forced from him by the same process as in other instances, and were given in absolute title to the government. |
 | | The Khedive for many years broke through the trammels that environed him, and was in the midst of successful reform, never hesitating to strike down superstitions when they stood in his way, and only when fate decreed against him did he fall. |
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