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Updated: May 29, 2025
The bargaining between the Greek and the gipsy was about to start anew when Marcu looked outdoors thoughtfully, stroked his beard and said to the innkeeper: "Put away the things my daughter has selected. I shall come again, alone, to bargain for them." "If my friend fears he has not enough money " suavely intervened Anastasidis, as he placed a friendly hand on the gipsy's arm.
He also feared that she could feel his thoughts. He was ashamed of what passed through his mind. Rapidly enough in self-defense he turned against her the sharp edge of the argument. Why had she given him all those ugly thoughts? "It will be as I said, Anastasidis. In a day or a week. When the river has frozen, I come alone. And now, Fanutza, we go. Night is coming close behind us.
"A fine daughter you have. Your daughter, eh?" "Yes, and she is about to marry, too." After they had clinked glasses and wished one another health and long years the innkeeper inquired: "All your men healthy?" "All. Only one-eyed Jancu died. You remember him. He was well along in years." "Bogdaproste. Let not a younger man than he was die," answered Anastasidis as he crossed himself.
After Marcu had declared himself warmed back to life by the fine wine he inquired of Anastasidis the price of oats and straw and hay. The innkeeper's store and his warehouse contained everything from a needle to an oxcart. The shelves were full of dry goods, socks, shirts, silks, belts, fur caps, coats, and trousers.
Marcu and his daughter entered the inn that stood a few hundred feet from the shore. The innkeeper, an old fat greasy Greek, Chiria Anastasidis, welcomed the gipsy chief. Not knowing the relationship between the old man and the girl, he feared to antagonize his customer by talking to the young woman.
And after he had reflected on the Tartar's words, why, after he had refused to buy all the silks and linen on that reflection, not a very clear one at first, why had he not told Mehmet to row across alone and deliver the fodder and food. He could have passed the night in Anastasidis' inn and hired another boat the following morning if the river had not frozen meanwhile!
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