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Updated: May 4, 2025
Her sleepless days and nights passed in the perpetual effort to obtain some diversion from her pain, and with every hour it became more difficult to satisfy her craving for change and amusement. Balsamides came forward, touching his hand to his mouth and forehead; and then approaching nearer, he awaited her invitation to sit down.
"I wonder whether there is any truth in what you say!" she exclaimed, in a voice broken with the pain she would not confess. "It is useless to deny it," answered Balsamides. "The Khanum Effendim is already suffering." "No, I am not!" she said between her teeth. But the perspiration trickled down her hollow cheeks.
I argued from this, either that the Khanum had died without telling her story, or else that she had told it all, and that Selim was to accompany us to the place where Alexander was buried or hidden. At last we turned to the left. Balsamides again put his head out of the window, and called to the coachman to drive on the Belgrade road instead of turning towards Pera.
"Well, then, get up and come back to the carriage," said Balsamides, seeing it was useless to bandy words with the fellow. Moreover, it was bitterly cold in the forest, and the idea of being once more in the comfortable carriage was attractive. Again we took Selim between us, and rapidly descended the stony path.
Then the whole sense of disappointment rushed back upon him, and he hastily strode down the long hall, under the lamps, between the mirrors, without once looking behind him. Balsamides found Selim outside the door at the other end of the passage, sitting disconsolately upon the divan.
"You need not have brought me here to ask me about him. I would have told you what you wanted to know at Yeni Köj, willingly enough." "Why can he not be found?" "Because he has been dead nearly two years, and his body was thrown into the Bosphorus," answered the Lala defiantly. "You killed him, I suppose?" Balsamides tightened his grip upon the man's arm. But Selim was ready with his reply.
His large and deep-set blue eyes seem to look at things only to criticise them, never to enjoy them, and his arched eyebrows bristle like defenses set up between the world with its interests on the one side and the inner man Balsamides on the other.
The straight black hair was matted in the moisture upon her clammy face; a deathly, greenish livid hue had overspread her features; her chin was extended forward hungrily and her eyes shone dangerously, while her lips chattered perpetually. She was very near to Balsamides. Had she had the strength to stretch out her hand she could almost have touched the small black case he held.
It was six o'clock in the morning, and the sun was nearly up. I thought it had been one of the longest nights I ever remembered. While Balsamides dismissed the coachman, I led Alexander quickly into the house and up the narrow stairs. In a few minutes Gregorios joined us, and coffee was brought. "I think you could wear my clothes," he said, looking at Alexander with a scarcely perceptible smile.
The envelope contained a sheet of pink paper, on which, in an ill-formed hand, but in tolerably good French, were written a few words. It was a declaration of love." "From Laleli?" asked Balsamides, with a laugh. "Exactly," replied Alexander. "It was a declaration of love from Laleli.
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