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Updated: May 22, 2025
Each of them strictly observed the day in his own peculiar manner. But Fate had prepared for the people at large a very different sort of observance. Early in the morning, at sunrise, seventeen Janissaries were standing in front of the mosque of Bajazid with Halil Patrona at their head.
"To save thee I have done it," stammered Achmed, pressing the child to his breast. "Thou wilt see that thou shalt not save us after all," sighed Bajazid. In the years to come these words were to be as an eternal echo in the ears of Achmed. So he sat on his throne and the Ulemas took their places around him on the divans covered with kordofan leather. Opposite to him sat the chief imam, Ispirizade.
Before coming to the council-chamber he had kissed all his children, one by one, and when it came to the turn of his little ten-year-old child, Bajazid, he saw that the little fellow's eyes were full of tears and he inquired the reason why. The child replied: "Father, it is well with those who are thy enemies and grievous for them that love thee.
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