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He had one Syrian priest for His chaplain , and two Syrian servants . He said His mass each morning , Himself wearing vestments and His white habit beneath , and heard a mass after . He then took His coffee , after changing into the tunic and burnous of the country , and spent the morning over business . He dined at noon , slept , and rode out , for the country by reason of its indeterminate position was still in the simplicity of a hundred years ago . He returned at dusk , supped , and worked again till late into the night . That was all . His chaplain sent what messages were necessary to Damascus ; His servants , themselves ignorant of His dignity , dealt with the secular world so far as was required , and the utmost that seemed to be known to His few neighbours was that there lived in the late Sheikh 's little house on the hill an eccentric European with a telegraph office .