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Then the Sultana Asseki, full of fury, seized a whip, and lashed away at the damsel's body till she could lash no more, yet she could not thrash a soul into the lifeless body." "By Allah!" cried Halil, smiting the table with his heavy fist at this point of the narration, "that Sultana deserves to be sewn up in a leather sack and cast into the Bosphorus."
Then was heard the crashing plunging sound of the paddle-wheels as they beat the brown water, and then the ringing of the bell, and the shouts of command passing from captain to mate, and from mate to "deck hands," and in five minutes after, the "Houma" Red River-boat, lay side by side with the old "Sultana."
I spoke to him about his necklace, and he told me he had been very fortunate, having sold it at Constantinople for the favourite sultana. I communicated this answer to the Queen, who was delighted with it, but could not comprehend how the Sultan came to purchase his diamonds in Paris.
It were long reading the inventory of articles he had brought together there for the edification and amusement of such as might become his idols. They were everywhere apparently books, pictures, musical instruments on the floor, a carpet to delight a Sultana mother over the walls, arras of silk and gold in alternate threads the ceiling an elaboration of wooden panels.
Often as a carriage dashes by, the pedestrian is able to catch a glimpse of some jewelled and turbaned sultana, of dazzling beauty, attended by her maid, who does not always possess a sinecure, for the mistress is often haughty, proud, and petulant, very hard to please, and exacts great deference from her inferiors.
He sent a second, and a third, whom she also killed. These last words were scarcely spoken, when the sultana bursting from her concealment ran up to the dervish, fell upon his neck, and embraced him: upon which, the sultan her husband was enraged, put his hand to his cimeter, and exclaimed, "What means this shameless behaviour?"
The brothers worked together and were true and affectionate brothers, encouraging and appreciating each other. Gentile was sent by the Doge at the request of the Sultan either Mahommed II, or Bajazet II., to Constantinople, where Gentile Bellini painted the portrait of the Sultan and the Sultana his mother, now in the British Museum.
Winding a bobbin, she leaned back in her chair, with the indolent, haughty grace of a sultana, and when she held the bobbin up against the light for an instant, her slender olive hand and rounded wrist might have belonged to Cleopatra. "Who is that woman winding thread?"
In a day or two after his absence, the sultana invited Koout al Koolloob to an entertainment, and having mixed a strong soporific in some sherbet, presented it her to drink.
Say, and hold; but Sultana and precious Stones are damnable Temptations, besides, the Rogue's young and handsome, What a scornful look she casts at me; wou'd they were both handsomely at the Devil together. Guz. Dog, do you mutter? Fran. Oh! nothing, nothing, but the Palsy shook my Lips a little. Guz. Slave, go, and on your knees resign your Wife. Fran. Guz. Peace, thou diminutive Christian.
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