La Poule Noire (The Black Pullet)

—such kindness original: complaisance; here meaning a patient and obliging manner in teaching. in the lessons he gave me, that even with less goodwill, another would have made progress. I will pass over in silence everything relating to my new education. My complete recovery and my convalescence convalescence: the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness or injury were longer than I would have believed; my host went out from time to time to find out what was happening: he was in absolute ignorance of the events of the world original: les événements de la terre, literally "the events of the earth.".

Finally, one day he was gone longer than usual, and upon his return he informed me that the French army had evacuated Egypt, that I would remain with him, and that he would make me forget my sort of captivity through his tenderness and friendship. He told me that my fate would not be as cruel as I might think, that he would teach me things that would astonish me even as he instructed me, and that I would have nothing left to desire in terms of fortune fortune: in this context, it refers specifically to wealth and material prosperity.

I was beginning to understand the Turkish language; he told me to stand up, and I obeyed him. He took me by the hand and led me to the end of the room. He opened a door opposite the one by which we had entered, and taking a lamp from the table, we entered a subterranean vault souterrain: an underground chamber or passage, often hidden or secret where I saw several chests lined up; he opened them, they—