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Mohammed promises them Paradise after death, and Paradise is only a continuation of worldly pleasures a place where the blessed dwell under palms which continually bear fruit, where clear springs leap forth, and where flutes and stringed instruments make music in eternal summer. As a child Fatima Hanum played in one of the narrow streets of Stambul.
So now, perceiving this marriage as one more step in the irresistible march of destiny for her charge, she overlooked the youthful fretting and offered the example of her own unmoved acceptance. "What diamonds!" she said now admiringly, holding up a pin, and, examining the card. "From Seniha Hanum the cousin of Hamdi Bey." A moment more she held up the pin but the girl would not give it a look.
When we came to the Golden Horn, she pointed to my caique which lay at the Old Seraglio steps, and over the water we went, she lying quite at ease now, with her face at the level of the water in the centre of the crescent-shape, as familiarly as a hanum of old engaged in some escapade through the crowded Babel of Galata and that north side of the Horn.
It was his cousin, Seniha Hanum Satan devour her! who made this marriage. Always she hated me.... But now I will tell you how to get to her. Look out, with me."
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