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Updated: June 22, 2025
Then Achmed sent the Kizlar-Aga for Sultan Mahmud, surnamed "the White Prince," from the pallor of his face, to summon him to his presence. Half an hour later, accompanied by Elhaj Beshir, Prince Mahmud arrived. He was the son of Mustapha II., who had renounced the throne in favour of Achmed just as Achmed was now resigning the throne in favour of Mahmud.
After the usual kissing of hands, the nuptials were proceeded with, the Kiaja representing the bridegroom and the Kizlar-Aga the bride, and everyone received a present. Then came the bridal retinue with the bridal gifts, a hundred camels laden with flowers and fruits, and an elephant bearing gold and precious stones and veils meet for the land of the peris.
"Next they demand that the Kiaja Aga be handed over to them." The Sultan cut off one of the tulips with his knife and handed it to the Kizlar-Aga. "There, take it!" said he. The Aga was astonished, but presently he understood and took the tulip. "Then they want the Kapudan Pasha." The Sultan cut off the handsomest of the tulips. "There you have it," said he.
Remind him through the Kizlar-Aga that he neglect not the pricking of the Koran." "You have spoken a word in season," replied Adsalis, and she immediately sent the Kizlar-Aga into the council-chamber.
Grave were their deliberations, but nobody, except the viziers, knows the result thereof; yet when he issues forth from his prayer-chamber the Kizlar-Aga is already awaiting him there and hands the Sultan a signet-ring. "Most glorious of Padishahs! the most delicious of women sends thee this ring. Well dost thou know what was beneath this ring. Deadly venom was beneath it.
Sulali and the mufti fell down on their knees. "Wherefore this haste, O my master?" cried the aged mufti, bitterly weeping as he kissed the Sultan's feet. "Because the rebels wish them to be surrendered alive." "So it is," observed the Kizlar-Aga by way of corroboration, "the whole space in front of the kiosk is filled with the insurgents." The Sultan almost collapsed with horror.
The Sultan who could not endure the thought that he was under a debt of gratitude to a poor oppressed pedlar, the Sultana who could never forget the humiliation she had suffered because of Gül-Bejáze, the Kizlar-Aga who feared the influence of Halil, the Grand Vizier who had been compelled to eat humble pie all of them had long been waiting for an occasion to ruin him.
"Hasten, hasten then!" said he to the Kizlar-Aga, and with that he fled away into his inner apartments. Ten minutes later Sulali and the Iman returned, and announced that there was not a soul to be seen anywhere and no sign of anyone threatening the Seraglio. Then the Kizlar-Aga led them down to the gate.
The Sultan had not yet given an answer when, through the door leading from the harem, popped the Kizlar-Aga, the chief eunuch, a respectable, black-visaged gentleman with split lips, who had the melancholy privilege of passing in and out of the Sultan's harem at all hours of the day and night, and finding no pleasure therein.
The furious mænads fell upon their assailants, flung them to the ground, and the next instant had seized the bridles of the steeds of the odalisks. The Kizlar-Aga was fully alive to the danger which threatened the Sultana. The whole square was thronged with angry women who, with faces flushed and sparkling eyes, were rushing upon the odalisks.
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