text: "[13] An "Englishwoman in Egypt " thanks to the Mediterranean steamers and the overland route to India is no longer so unusual or astounding a spectacle as it would appear to have been five-and-twenty years ago when that dilettante traveller Monsieur le Comte de Forbin made a precipitate retreat from Thebes in consequence of the shock sustained by his nerves from encountering among the ruins "une femme-de-chambre Anglaise en petit _spencer_ couleur de rose " in the person of the Countess of Belmore's lady's-maid; though the Quarterly Reviewers who in those days had no mercy for a French misstatement even in the colour of a soubrette's dress triumphantly declared the offending garment to have been "a pale-blue pelisse;" and proceeded to demolish the hapless Count accordingly--(_Quarterly Review_ Vol