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Updated: May 29, 2025
And if the snowy haiks and turbans and the resplendent shades of the kaftans were the first point about the feast, the sweetmeat stalls were the second.
At the bottom of the haiks a flash of colour obtrudes, tomato in one, beetle-green in the other, and filmy muslin over both, which in their turn allow a glimpse of ankles wrapped round in snowy linen folds rose-pink, gold-embroidered slippers completing the whole, suggestive of a tea party.
"And themselves, Haik, also; they are a remarkable people, and, though their original habitation is the Mountain of Ararat, they are to be found, like the Jews, all over the world." "Well!" "Well, father, that's all I can tell you about the Haiks, or Armenians." "And what does it all amount to?"
His shoes are of goat-skin, very well-dressed, the sole being but of one thickness. He wears over his dress a fine white blanket, with which he can completely shroud himself, leaving only his right arm exposed. It is called a haik. Some of these haiks are very fine and transparent, while others are thicker and more fit for general use.
The Master saw innumerable dark faces peering down from snowy burnouses and haiks. He saw the gleam of steel. Not one of the figures on the wall was veiled. Not one woman, therefore, had as yet been permitted to leave the perfumed dimness of the harems, even for this stupendous event in the city's history.
'And themselves, Haik, also; they are a remarkable people, and, though their original habitation is the Mountain of Ararat, they are to be found, like the Jews, all over the world. 'Well! 'Well, father, that's all I can tell you about the Haiks, or Armenians. 'And what does it all amount to?
I still fall short by a vast sum of the two hundred thousand pounds." I had occasionally much conversation with him on the state and prospects of his nation, especially of that part of it which still continued in the original country of the Haiks Ararat and its confines, which, it appeared, he had frequently visited.
"The Jews are a singular people," said I. "A race of cowards and dastards," said the Armenian, "without a home or country; servants to servants; persecuted and despised by all." "And what are the Haiks?" I demanded. "Very different from the Jews," replied the Armenian; "the Haiks have a home a country, and can occasionally use a good sword; though it is true they are not what they might be."
Monsieur the Inspector of Fine Arts, who had made sure of taking his Highness all round the exhibition and of thus winning the pretty red-and-green ribbon of the Nicham-Iftikahr, never knew the secret of this sudden flight. At the moment when the white haiks were disappearing under the porch, just in time to see the last wave of their folds, the Nabob made his entry by the middle door.
But under its dark mantle were soft silks and delicate shawls and gauzy haiks, and veils and embroidered sashes and light red slippers, and many dainty things such as women love. And to him that came again after ten heavy years they were as a dream of her that had worn them when she was young that now was dead when she was beautiful that now was in the grave. "Ah me, ah me! Ruth!
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