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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Well of all the scoundrels " "Well," muttered the renegade, who was now out of hearing, "of all the scoundrels " Whom they were referring to in their separate soliloquies must be left to the reader's imagination; for caution prevented either of the parties from giving vent to the remainder of their thoughts. "Mashallah! How wonderful is God!
Her towing-rope had broken, she cast her anchor, but it could not hold her, she drifted into the whirlpool, and now her timbers float on the surface, but her crew rests below in the deep pool. Mashallah! We can not follow her there. The "St. Barbara" had escaped two dangers the rocks of the Iron Gate and the Turkish brigantine; two remained, the Bora and the quarantine in Orsova.
A stroll into the maidan any evening when the four electric lights are making the gas-lamps glimmer feebler than ever, reveals a small crowd of natives assembled about each post, gazing wonderingiy up at the globe, endeavoring to penetrate the secret of its brightness, and commenting freely among themselves in this wise: "Mashallah. Abdullah," says one, " here does all the light come from.
After I had been there about six months I was tired; and as there was only twenty thousand miles between that country and my own, I determined to swim back. "Mashallah! swim back how many thousand miles?" exclaimed Mustapha. "Only twenty thousand a mere nothing." So one fine morning I throws a young kangaroo on my shoulder, and off I starts.
Unfortunately, in lifting up my garment, I exposed to the view of the old hag the cursed goat's-skin bag, which hung at my girdle, and contained, not only her money, but the remainder of my own. "Mashallah how wonderful is God!" screamed the old beldame, flying at me like a tigress, and clutching the bag from my girdle.
"Thirty thousand sequins," cried Prince Badfellah; but even as he spoke they fled before his face, crying, "His godmother is dead. Lo! the jackals are defiling her grave. Mashallah! he has no godmother." And they sought out Panik, the swift-footed messenger, and bade him shout through the bazaars that the godmother of Prince Badfellah was dead.
I was eighteen months in the harem of Osman Ali, and never spoke one word. "Mashallah! but this is wonderful!" exclaimed the pacha "a woman hold her tongue for eighteen months! Who is to believe this?" "Not at all wonderful!" replied the old woman, "when you recollect that she was required to speak." Once and once only, did I nearly break through my resolution.
One stout horse in the party I meet this morning carries two corpses; and in the saddle between them rides a woman. "Mashallah." perchance those very bodies, between which she sits perched so indifferently, are the remains of small-pox victims. But, what cares the woman? is she not a Mohammedan, and a female one at that? and does she not believe in kismet.
The Frank physician was then fined one hundred sequins more; fifty for feeling the pulse, and fifty more for looking at a Turkish woman's tongue. The young woman was dismissed to the pacha's harem, the old woman to curse as much as she pleased, and Hudusi with full permission to doubt any thing but the justice of the pacha. "Mashallah! God be praised! we are rid of that fellow and his doubts.
Recollect, vizier, that I am grateful you understand me;" and the renegade quitted the divan, leaving Mustapha still in his astonishment. By the sword of the prophet, is it not strange that he should send him to command my fleet?" "It was the will of your sublime highness," replied Mustapha, "that he should command your fleet." "Mashallah! was it not the will of the prophet?"
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