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'They are still in the house, said To’ Kâya, 'but I cannot be bothered to take them out of it. 'Let me fetch them, said Ma’ Pek. 'Do so, by all means, said To’ Kâya, and, as she scrambled up, he stabbed her as he had done her husband, and she, running away, tripped over the two other bodies, and gave up the ghost.
"Pek chok, that is quite enough, and too much." "Yes, of course it is," answered the Jew, ironically. "I paid a hundred and nineteen pounds and eighty-five piastres for it. I only ask fifteen piastres profit. Small profits. Get rid of everything quickly. Who sells cheaply sells soon; who sells soon earns much." "I told you from the first that I did not want your Rhodes," said Balsamides.
Alexander moved slowly forward, turning his head as he passed, and looking long into the black eyes of the veiled lady. "Pek güzel, very pretty indeed," he said aloud, using the only words of Turkish he had learned in three weeks. But they were enough; the effect was instantaneous.
I could see nothing of her face. She answered me in Turkish, which of course I could not understand. All I could say was Pek güzel, very beautiful, which I repeated amidst my French phrases, giving the words as passionate an accent as I could command. At last she seemed to relent, and as she bent towards me I expected that she was about to speak very softly some Turkish love-word.
Then go back and wait behind Agia Sophia, in case he comes that way again to look for the carriage. If I find him in Pera, I will send a messenger to tell you. If he does not come, meet me at Missiri's early to-morrow morning." "Pek eyi very good," answered the kaváss, who understood the wisdom of the plan.
'Wo’, he said, for he spoke to To’ Kâya as though the latter was his son, 'Wo’, what has caused this fire? 'I know not, said To’ Kâya. 'Where are thy children, Wo’? asked Pa’ Pek. 'They are still within the house, said To’ Kâya. 'Then suffer me to save them, said Pa’ Pek.
"To my house in Pera!" cried Balsamides to the patient coachman. "Pek tchabuk! As fast as you can drive!" "Evvét Effendim," replied the old soldier, and in another moment we were tearing along the road at breakneck speed. Hitherto Alexander Patoff had been too much surprised and overcome by his emotions to speak connectedly or to ask us any questions.
I believe in the whole, there were two hundred women, and yet none of those disdainful smiles, or satiric whispers, that never fail in our assemblies when any body appears that is not dressed exactly in the fashion. They repeated over and over to me, "Uzelle, pék uzelle," which is nothing but Charming, very charming.
Äbdul Rahman picked himself up, and ran as far as the big stone mosque, where he collapsed and died. To’ Kâya did not pursue him, but stood looking at the leaping flames. The next man to arrive on the scene was Pa’ Pek, a Trĕnggânu native, who, with his wife Ma’ Pek, had tended To’ Kâya when he was little.
What was my horror when she suddenly screamed into my ear, with a hideous harsh voice, my own words, Pek güzel! In a moment she threw off her black ferigee, and tore the thick veil from her head. I could have yelled with rage, for I saw what a fool I had made of myself, and that the old hag had played a practical joke on me in revenge for the affair in the Valley of Roses.
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