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among the sand. Abdulla bin Jabr, the Sheikh's confidential servant, came with me, & several others. Got back at
about five oclock - rather a tiring trip. M had been to tennis at the Spences. Went early to bed. I had a couple of
native beds made & we now sleep out on the veranda, much cooler & pleasanter. The Spences have started a tennis
court.
Monday [17th May]
Busy day at office making up for missing a day. The Sheikh came in but I didnt see him, he & Daly had the Joint Court.
de Grenier fussed in & out of my office at frequent intervals, a tiresome person, so loquacious & extravagant of time.
He looks like a vulgar down at heel foreigner, with a fat face & pointed beard & a mania for mispronounced
quotations in French & Latin - both of which he speaks as abominably as he does Arabic. Daly detests him. I find him
only tiresome. The second edition of his "lists of effects for sale" includes a "tooth brush tidy" sounds an awful thing,
of a part with a mirror in his sitting room framed in crimson plush.
Tuesday [18th May]
