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She generally patronized Marchetto, however, and on the present occasion she had come expressly to see him. He was standing in the door of his little shop as usual, and his red face and red-brown eyes lighted up when he caught sight of Miss Dabstreak.
"It is delightful to hear them talk, so different from an English shopkeeper." "Very," assented the learned man. "Their imagery is certainly remarkable. Their scale of prices seems to be founded upon it, as logarithms depend for their existence on the square root of minus one, an impossible quantity." "Dear me! Could you explain that to Marchetto? It might make a difference, you know."
"Will you swear to me, solemnly, before God, that you are telling the truth?" Marchetto looked at me in surprise, for no people in the world are so averse to making a solemn oath as the Hebrews, as, perhaps, no people are more exact in regard to the truth when so made to bind themselves. The man looked at me for a moment.
He told his tale triumphantly, dwelling on the fact that Marchetto himself had never suspected that he was interested in the matter. "And who is Laleli Khanum Effendi?" I inquired when he had finished. "And how are we to get into her house?" "You never heard of Laleli? You Franks think you know Constantinople, but you know very little in reality. Laleli means 'a tulip. A pretty name, Tulip.
In a moment a crowd collected, and the epithets of the combatants were drowned amidst the jeers and laughter of the by-standers, delighted at seeing the dandy keeper of a great harem in the clutches of the sturdy Marchetto. Abraham looked out, and then turned back to his customer. "It is Selim," he said with a chuckle. "He has been trying to cheat Marchetto again."
Will you buy my watch? birindjí first quality it is a beautiful thing. On my honor, I have never seen a finer one, though it is of silver." "Not unless you will tell me where it came from," I said firmly. "Besides, I must show it to Vartan in Pera before I buy it. Perhaps the works are not good." "It is yours," said Marchetto. "Take it. When you have had it two days you will buy it." "How much?"
We strolled along, smoking and chatting as we went, when a Jew named Marchetto, with whom I had had dealings in former days and who knew me very well, came suddenly out into the broad covered way, and invited us into his shop. He said he had an object of rare beauty which he was sure I would buy. We went in, and sat down on a low divan against the wall.
"I think you are fairly caught, aunt Chrysophrasia," observed Paul, with a laugh. "Who would have guessed that there was so much humor in an Israelite?" asked Chrysophrasia, with a sad intonation. "I cannot wear the saint's tea-gown, Marchetto," she continued; "otherwise I would gladly give you twenty-five pounds for it. Eight pounds for the embroidery, no more. It is not worth so much.
"It is worth a hundred and fifty pounds, neither more nor less. Marchetto is an honest man. He is not a Persian fox." "No," answered Balsamides, "he is an Israelite of Saloniki. What have I to do with such a fellow as you, who have the impudence to ask a hundred and fifty liras for that rag?" "How shall the lion and the lamb lie down together?" inquired Marchetto. "And is it a rag?"
"Keep it as long as you like. I know you very well, and I thank Heaven I have profited a little with you. But the price of the watch is twenty pounds. You will pay it, and all your life you will look at it and say, 'What an honest man Marchetto is! By my head it is birindjí first quality I never" "I have no doubt," I answered, cutting him short.
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