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When Constantine Dragases he of whom we are writing ascended the throne, the realm was even more diminished. Galata, just across the Golden Horn, had become a Genoese stronghold. Scutari, on the Asiatic shore almost vis-a-vis with Constantinople, was held by a Turkish garrison.
Now the office of eunuch was by no means an exclusive pagan institution; time out of mind it had been a feature of Byzantine courts; and Constantine Dragases, the last, and probably the most Christian of Greek emperors, not only tolerated, but recognized it as honorable.
And as to the town, one had but to look at it to be sure it had undergone no recent change that in the day of Constantine Dragases it was the same summer resort it had been in the day of Medea the sorceress the same it yet is under sway of the benignant Abdul-Hamid.
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