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Updated: May 13, 2025
But again the door opened, and there entered the Kadun-Kiet-Khuda, the guardian of the ladies of the Seraglio, accompanied by two slave-girls carrying a splendid porcelain pitcher, which they deposited at the sick woman's bed with this humble salutation: "The Sultana Validé greets thee and sends thee this sherbet!"
At this one of the boldest of the bayaderes thrust herself forward. "Make way thyself, thou bearded old witch," she cried; "make way, I say, before the wife of Halil Patrona. Why, thou art not worthy to kiss the dust off her feet. Stand aside if thou wilt not come along with us." And with these words she banged her tambourine right under the nose of the Kadun-Kiet-Khuda.
The whole space of the square was filled with women a perfect sea of heads and visible above them all was a quivering, tremulous white figure which they had raised on high. "Make way for the Sultana!" screamed the Kadun-Kiet-Khuda, who led the procession; a warty old woman she was, who had had charge of the harem for years and grown grey in it.
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