ghazeeyeh's

Updated: June 16, 2025

Then she and Dicky disappeared into the night. When Dicky left her house, clothed in his own garments once more, but the stains of henna still on his face and hands and ankles, he pressed into the ghazeeyeh's hand ten gold-pieces. She let them fall to the ground. "Love is love, effendi," she said. "Money do they give me for what is no love.

Gilbert Parker - Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 2

Then she and Dicky disappeared into the night. When Dicky left her house, clothed in his own garments once more, but the stains of henna still on his face and hands and ankles, he pressed into the ghazeeyeh's hand ten gold-pieces. She let them fall to the ground. "Love is love, effendi," she said. "Money do they give me for what is no love.

Gilbert Parker - Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete