text: [22] But nothing but the _patte de velours_ was seen by the English stranger who though Nezleh Hanum was severely indisposed at the time of her visit was by her express command shown into her bedroom and received "with the sweetest smile imaginable;" while the youngest son of the Pasha Mohammed Ali Bey a boy nine years old sat on a cushion at his sister's feet conversing with the visitor in French; his mother and other ladies sitting on Mrs Poole's left hand