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With dreadful deliberation Zoega draws forth his whip, which has been carefully hidden in the folds of his coat all this time, and, holding the victim of his displeasure in mid-air, thus, as I take it, apostrophizes him in his native language: "O Brusa! have I not fed thee and cherished thee with parental care? This is thy return for all my kindness!
Leith has never been a schoolmaster." And there she left it, with a faint smile in which there was just the hint of an almost cynical sadness. Since the trip to Brusa on the "Leyla" she had thought a great deal about Dion Leith, and she was very sorry for him in a rather unusual way.
At the opposite side of the table-land, bounding it towards the north, there runs under various names a second continuous range of inferior elevation, which begins near Brusa, in the Keshish Dagh or Mysian Olympus, and proceeds in a line nearly parallel with the northern coast to the vicinity of Kars.
The occasional duckings we had experienced in crossing the rivers did not add to my comfort. I was chilled and wet, and would have given a Danish dollar for the privilege of sitting at a fire. All this time there was no sign of life about the premises save the barking of an ill-favored little dog that was energetically disclaiming any acquaintance with Brusa.
Many a one picks up some old book that nobody knows anything about, and gets his ideas out of it. He had a great deal of vice in his looks his eyes set close together, and a contracted brow. O Lord! I am sure he was not a liberal man, whatever else he might be. The winter of 1810 was passed at Constantinople, and the early part of 1811 at the Baths of Brusa.
Brusa was his name, and the management of our loose horses was his legitimate occupation. A bright, lively, officious little fellow was Brusa, very much like a wolf in appearance, and not unlike a human being in certain traits of his character.
Good counsel was now precious indeed. The Grand Vizier opined that the army, leaving the Sultan behind at Brusa, should set off at once towards Tebrif to meet the foe. If it were found possible to unite with Abdullah Pasha all was won. Stambul was to be left to itself, and the rebels allowed to do as they liked there. Once let the external enemy be well beaten and then their turn would come too.
I'm a free agent. I have no ties. I shall never forget his look when he said those words. I never knew anything about loneliness anything really till that moment. And after that moment I knew everything. I asked him to come on the yacht to Brusa, or rather to Mudania; from there one goes to Brusa. He came. You may think, perhaps, that he was eager for society, for pleasure, distraction.
But she interrupted him inflexibly. "Going away would be absolutely useless. A man can't travel away from himself." "But I can't lead a normal life. It's impossible. Those horrible nights on the 'Leyla' " He stopped. The effort he had made during the trip to Brusa seemed to have exhausted the last remnants of any moral force he had still possessed when he started on that journey.
Others, as the new state gained momentum, found themselves obliged to accept it or be crushed. There are to this day Greek communities in the Brusa district jealously guarding privileges which date from compacts made with their seigneurs by Osman and his son Orkhan.
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