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Updated: June 17, 2025
Halil Patrona gratefully pressed the Janissary's hand. He knew right well that he spoke from no desire of glorification, he knew that Musli only wanted to go instead of him because it was very possible that the bearer of these demands might be beheaded.
The next morning, when Janaki awoke and descended to Halil, he gave him a piece of money which they call a golden denarius. "Take this piece of money, worthy Chorbadshi," said he, "and if you will permit me to remain beneath your roof this day also, prepare therewith a mid-day meal for us both."
The public crier remained in the middle of the bazaar alone with the slave-girl; the chapmen had not only retired into their shops but barred the doors behind them. "Much obliged to you; but we would not accept such a piece of good luck even as a gift," they seemed to say. Only one man still remained in front of his shop, and that was Halil Patrona.
"Not there, but come and sit down by my side," said Halil, and seizing the trembling hand of the odalisk, he made her sit down beside him on the cushion, piled up the pilaf before her, and invited her with kind and encouraging words to fall to. The odalisk obeyed him. Not a word had she yet spoken, but when she had finished eating, she turned towards Halil and murmured in a scarce audible voice,
"'Tis the dumb curse of Achmed!" whispered the awe-stricken spectators to one another. The surgujal the turban with the triple gold circlet was on the head of Mahmud, but the sword, the sword of dominion, was in the hand of Halil Patrona.
We have made a law. All are now Ottomans!" "You may make a law that a cat is a dog," said I, "but it will remain a cat." They expressed horror that I should compare human beings to animals, and Halil persisted: "It will be like England. In England you have the people of Scotland and Ireland. But they are all English. A man from Scotland, for example, would not say 'I am Scotch."
Plainly these were the only cushion and carpet obtainable in the house, and the guest observing that these were the very things he had noticed in the room below, exclaimed to Halil Patrona: "Oh, humane Chorbadshi, you have given me your own carpet and pillow; on what will you sleep, pray?" "Do not trouble your head about me, muzafir!
There was nothing indeed but a few small fish and a few beautiful rosy-red onions, but Halil had so much to say in praise of the repast, telling his guest where and how these fish were caught, and in what manner they ought to be fried so as to bring out the taste; how you could find out which of them had hard roes and which soft; what different sorts of flavours there are in the onion tribe, far more, indeed, than in the pine-apple; and then the pure fresh water too why the Koran from end to end is full of the praises of fresh pure water, and Halil knew all these passages by heart, and had no need to look in the holy book for them.
Halil now ordered a document to be drawn up, whereby he elevated him to the rank of Reis-Effendi. Halil Patrona, by the way, was still wearing his old Janissary uniform, the blue dolman with the salavari reaching to the knee, leaving the calves bare.
He was a sturdy, muscular fellow, who could have held his own against any two or three ordinary men. Him Halil appointed Aga. Then came a ciaus called Orli, whom he made chief magistrate.
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