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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Tell me," said the old woman, lowering her voice, "is it the magic of the Franks?" "It is, and it is not," answered Gregorios, willing to play upon her superstition. "It is, truly, very mysterious, and a man who employs it must have clean hands and a brave heart. And so, indeed, must the person who benefits by the cure. Otherwise it cannot be permanent.
The Khanum opened her small black eyes, the contortion of her wrinkled face gave way to a more natural expression, and she gradually assumed a look of peace and relief which told Gregorios that the drug had done its work. Even her voice sounded less hoarse and indistinct when she spoke again. "I am cured!" she exclaimed in sudden delight.
"What do the women do all day long?" asked Chrysophrasia. "I am sure they do not pass their time upon a straw matting, staring at each other, so very dreary!" "Nevertheless they do," said Gregorios. "They smoke and eat sweetmeats from morning till night, and occasionally an old woman comes and tells them stories. Some of them can read French.
"Of course," I said, rising and going towards my room. "How are we to go to Yeni Köj?" "A carriage from the palace will be at the door in half an hour," answered Gregorios, looking at his watch. "Now, then, we must turn you into a Turkish officer," he added, with a laugh.
"Nevertheless, unless you repent my medicine will not heal you," returned Gregorios, calmly. "What have I to repent? Shall you find out my sin?" "That I be unable to find it out does not destroy the necessity for your repenting it. The time is short. If your heart is not clean you will soon be writhing in a worse agony than when I charmed away your pain."
The house is in a lonely place, and the driver of the carriage knows his orders. He will obey instantly, no matter what I tell him to do." "And if we should, by any chance, find Alexander in the house," I asked, "shall we be able to get him out without trouble?" "Not without trouble," answered Gregorios, with a grim smile.
The negro started violently when he heard the order given, and I thought he put out his hand to take the handle of the door; but my own was in the hanging loop fastened to the inside of the door, and I knew that he could not open it. The road indicated by Gregorios leads through the heart of the Belgrade forest.
I have no experience of affairs of this sort; your knowledge of them is very great. On the other hand, I am more prudent than you are, and I do not like to risk everything on one throw of the dice." "We might set fire to the house and burn them out," said Gregorios, thoughtfully. "The danger would be that we might burn Alexander alive." My friend did not stick at trifles.
At that moment Gregorios Balsamides passed before their corner, a lady in a red hood and a red mask leaning on his arm. "Hush!" exclaimed Paul, under his breath, as the couple came near them. But Gregorios only nodded familiarly to Paul, stared a moment at his pale face, glanced at the black domino, and went on with his partner.
Fear nothing, I have an eye to your safety." The last speech was perhaps somewhat ambiguous, but the man, being once released, dived into a narrow passage and disappeared. The crowd of Jews had shrunk into their shops again. Gregorios hastily concluded a bargain with Abraham, and then returned to finish his conversation with Marchetto.
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