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supervised even the seating arrangements of the new
Chamber, and it gratefully passed his measures.
Kitchener played up well to his part. Money was now
easy, and the old campaigner of the Sudan who had
set an example of frugality to the British officer, now
set a new standard of display to the British official. The
Residency blazed out in scarlet liveries, a new ballroom
and a service of gold plate. The British administration
that had been so mesquin in its economy launched into
public expenditures that seemed to some sheer megalo-
mania. Sir Paul Harvey, Financial Adviser, trying to
assert the power of the purse, was forced to give place to
the more tactful Lord Edward Cecil. Lord Kitchener,
in symposia with Cecil Rhodes, was indulging in visions
of an all-red Africa. The Egyptian Nation seemed
destined to be embedded in a new extension of the
British Empire.
Meantime Gorst's f' Egypt for the Egyptians " disap-
peared. The complete dependence of Egyptian Ministers
c~^-the Agency and on their Advisers was restored.
British officials again filled every vacancy. But this re-
action seems to have passed almost unnoticed by Egyp-
tians ; or, perhaps, was compensated by Kitchener's
efforts to break down the social barriers between English
and Egyptians. For the Residency receptions were well
attended by Egyptian notables, and an Anglo-Egyptian
Society seemed in a fair way to replace the old racial
segregation.
One recalcitrant, however, still resisted. There was
clearly not room enough in Egypt for two potentates,
and Kitchener soon came into collision with the Khedive.
Kitchener was liked and feared. The Khedive was feared
and loathed. For Abbas, denied the prominent place in
the public eye to which he aspired, had taken to assert-