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As she bends her head, one or two flowers escape from the wreaths fastened in her hair. In the distance Cupid, half hidden by the woods, one knee touching earth, his beauteous bow bent, is fitting to it the flower-wreathed arrow. In another picture, Ram, returning from Lanka with Janaki, both sitting in a jewelled chariot, is coursing through the sky.
Then he brought water in a round-bellied trough for his guest to wash his hands, fetched drinking-water from the well in a long jug, whereupon he drew forward his rush-woven market-basket, emptied its contents on to the rush-mat, sat him down opposite honest Janaki, and forthwith invited his guest to fall to.
I am now disposed to believe that she was taken to the Sultan's Seraglio." "You will never get her out of there then." Janaki sighed deeply. "You think, then, that I shall never get at her if she is there?" and he shook his head sadly. "Not unless the Janissaries, or the Debejis, or the Bostanjis lay their heads together and agree to depose the Sultan."
All these victims were self-confident slave-girls, who had been unable to conceal their joy at the Sultan's favours, and therefore had been cast into the water. Nobody ever inquired about them any more." Janaki shivered all over. "It is well that this is all a tale," he observed. But Gül-Bejáze only continued her story.
He cast but a single look on Gül-Bejáze's smiling lips, and asked for a kiss from them that was the only price he demanded. Janaki seized his daughter's hand and placed it in the hand of Halil.
He hurried and scurried about till late in the evening without discovering a single trace of Janaki, and by that time his head was so confused by all manner of cogitations that when, towards nightfall, he began chaffering for fish in the Etmeidan market, he would not have been a bit surprised if he had been told that every single carp cost a thousand piastres.
The great Asura who was known as Mayura became noted on earth as the monarch Viswa. He who was the younger brother of Mayura and called Suparna became noted on earth as the monarch, Kalakirti. The mighty Asura who was known as Chandrahantri became on earth the royal sage Sunaka. The great Asura who was called Chandravinasana became noted on earth as the monarch, Janaki.
Suddenly a great cry of woe arose from one end of the city to the other, the people seized their arms and rushed off to the Etmeidan under three banners. They had no other leader now but Janaki, all the rest had escaped or were dead. So now they brought him forward.
Meanwhile, attracted by the noise of the conversation, a crowd of the acquaintances of Halil Patrona and the money-changer had gathered around them, and they laid their heads together and discussed among themselves for a long time the question which was the greater fool of the two Janaki, who had given five thousand piastres for three onions, or Halil who did not want to accept the money.
Halil willingly complied with the petition of his guest, and accompanied him all the way to the nearest thoroughfare. When now Janaki beheld the Bosphorus, and perceived that the road from this point was familiar to him, so that he needed no further assistance, he suddenly exclaimed: "Look now, my friend! an idea has occurred to me.
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