United States or Jersey ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Twenty liras, twenty Turkish pounds," answered the Jew promptly. "You mean five," I said. The watch was worth ten, I thought, about two hundred and thirty francs. "Impossible. I would rather let you take it as a gift. It is birindjí first quality upon my honor. I never saw" "Rubbish, Marchetto!" I exclaimed. "Let me take it to Vartan to be examined. Then we will bargain." "Take it," he answered.
Will you buy my watch? birindjí first quality it is a beautiful thing. On my honor, I have never seen a finer one, though it is of silver." "Not unless you will tell me where it came from," I said firmly. "Besides, I must show it to Vartan in Pera before I buy it. Perhaps the works are not good." "It is yours," said Marchetto. "Take it. When you have had it two days you will buy it." "How much?"
The Persians were victorious; Vartan, and his brother, Hemaiiag, were among the slain; and the patriotic party found that no further resistance was possible. The patriarch, Joseph, and the other bishops, were seized, carried off to Persia, and martyred. Zoroastrianism was enforced upon the Armenian nation.
One watched Azerbijan, or Media Atropatene, whence it was expected that their main attack would be made by the Persians; another, under Vartan, proceeded to the relief of Albania, where proceedings were going on similar to those which had driven Armenia into rebellion; the third, under Vasag, occupied a central position in Armenia, and was intended to move wherever danger should threaten.
An Effendi took the watch yesterday to show it to Vartan, the jeweler. He is a friend of yours, Effendim; you first brought him here a long time ago. His name is a strange name, Cricks, a very strange name, like the creaking of an ungreased cart-wheel." "Oh, did he take the watch? I will speak to him about it. He will pay you immediately. How did the Lala come to have a watch to sell?"
Vartan, the Mamigonian, repenting of his weakness, abjured his new creed, resumed the profession of Christianity, and made his peace with Joseph, the patriarch. He then called the people to arms, and in a short time collected a force of a hundred thousand men. Three armies were formed, to act separately under different generals.
Isdigerd retaliated by summoning to his presence the principal chiefs, viz., Vasag, the Margrave; the Sparapet, or commander-in-chief, Vartan, the Mamigonian; Vazten, prince of Iberia; Vatche, king of Albania, etc.; and having got them into his power, threatened them with immediate death, unless they at once renounced Christianity and made profession of Zoroastrianism.
Word Of The Day