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This sailor-man had just such a long grey beard as the Grand Vizier himself. "How dost thou come to know me?" inquired Damad Ibrahim of the old man. "Why we fought together, sir, beneath Belgrade, when both of us were young fellows together." "What is thy name? "Manoli." "I remember thee not."
Say, do you come from Enver Damad? 'I have that honour, he said. 'Well, Enver is a very good friend of mine. He's the brightest citizen I've struck this side of the Atlantic. The man was calming down, and in another minute his suspicions would have gone. But at that moment, by the crookedest kind of luck, Peter entered with a tray of dishes.
And as he, pursuing his way home, passed by the Tsiragan Palace, and there encountered riding past him the Padishah, Sultan Achmed III., accompanied by the Grand Vizier, Ibrahim Damad, the Kiaja Beg, the Kapudan Pasha, and the chief Imam, Ispirizade; and as he humbly bowed his head in the dust before them, it seemed to him as if something at the bottom of his heart whispered to him: "The time will come when the whole lot of you will bow your heads before me in the dust just as I, Halil Patrona, the pedlar, do obeisance to you now, ye lords of the Empire and the Universe!"
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