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None else can help me." "Nevertheless, though it be in vain, I must try my arts, Khanum Effendim," said Balsamides. "What are your arts?" asked the sick woman, scornfully. "Can you burn me with fire, and make a new Laleli out of the ashes of my bones?" "No," said Gregorios, "I cannot do that, but I can ease your pain, and perhaps you may recover." "If you can ease my pain, you shall be rich.
Paul could not pass him without using violence. "Effendim," said the man, speaking Turkish, which he knew that Paul understood, "if I let you go in there, and anything happens to you, my life is forfeited." Paul hesitated. The man was in earnest, and they were losing time which might be precious.
Kagig, not being in favor with the elders, vanished, Maga following with food for him in a leather bag, and we saw neither of them again until noon that day, by which time we ourselves had slept a little and eaten ravenously. We had laid both bodies under the one blanket in the shade, and Kagig pointed to them. "I have found the place the proper place, effendim!" he said simply.
Indeed, I felt that modern London was crumbling about me and that I was become involved in the fantastic mazes of one of those Oriental intrigues such as figure in the Romance of Abu Zeyd, or with which most European readers have been rendered familiar by the glowing pages of "The Thousand and One Nights." "Effendim," said my visitor, "do not hesitate to act as I direct!"
The price the extortionate tailor charges, is some thirty piastres. Bring back the change and a receipt." "Salaam, effendim!" and Mesrour bowed until the crown of his head was presented toward his master, together with the palms of his hands, and in this posture backed from the room, leaving Mr. Middleton speculating upon the wonder and alarm little Mr.
"I am afraid not," answered the professor gravely. "Marchetto is not a mathematician; are you, Marchetto?" "No surr, Effendim. Marchetto very honest man. Twenty-five pounds, lady ah! but it is birindjí there is not a Pacha in Stamboul" "You have said that before," observed the scientist, "Try and say something new." "New!" cried Marchetto. "It is not new. Any one say it new, he lie!
He struck at them with a rawhide whip, and spurred his horse savagely at every little clump of men disposed to air their own views. "You see," he laughed, "unanimity is lacking!" Then his manner changed back to irritation. "In the name of God, effendim, what manner of sportmen are you? Will not each of you take a dozen men and go and destroy those cursed Turks?"
"To my house in Pera!" cried Balsamides to the patient coachman. "Pek tchabuk! As fast as you can drive!" "Evvét Effendim," replied the old soldier, and in another moment we were tearing along the road at breakneck speed. Hitherto Alexander Patoff had been too much surprised and overcome by his emotions to speak connectedly or to ask us any questions.
"It is time, effendim, to be moving!" He led the way out without another word, I limping along last and the Armenian "elders" following me. It was pitchy dark in the castle courtyard, and without the light from numerous kerosene lanterns it would not have been possible to find the way between the heaped-up logs.
Almost before the echoes of the drum-taps died among the dancing shadows overhead a voice cried from the roof in Armenian, and Kagig rose to his feet. "Let us climb to the roof and see, effendim," he said, pulling on his tattered goat-skin coat. "See what, Ermenie?" demanded Rustum Khan. The Rajput's eyes were still ablaze with pagan flame, from watching Maga.
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