I thanked my father, to which he responded, “When I want to read your books, I’ll come here while you are at school.” “That would make me very happy,” I replied. My father noted, “But you have too few books. Order many more, and I will provide whatever money you need.” Then my father asked, “How do you know the names of the books?” I recounted what I had done following the death of my uncle, Sheikh Sultan. While my brothers and cousins waited for his body to arrive from London in the library hall, playing cards for an entire week, I was in the 42
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