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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Again?" repeated Gregorios, who had at last attained his end. "And who is Selim, Abraham?" "Selim? Everybody in the bazaar knows Selim, the most insolent, avaricious, money-grabbing Lala in Stamboul. He is more like a Persian than anything else. He is the Lala of Laleli Khanum Effendi, who lives at Yeni Köj. They say she is a witch since her husband died," added Abraham, lowering his voice.
'Money! shouted Dumesnil, and swinging round to his own table again he poured out hot denunciations of the money-grabbing reptiles of to-day who shelter themselves behind the sacred name of art. Meanwhile the man at whom it was all levelled sipped his coffee quietly and took no notice. 'Ah, a song! cried Alphonse. 'Lenain, vois-tu? It's that little devil Perinot.
I know how selfish and individualistic and sordid and money-grabbing we have been; how slothful and incompetent and self-satisfied we have been, and I fear it will take a long war and sacrifices and tragedies altogether beyond our present imagination to make us unselfish and public-spirited and clean and generous; it will take the strain and emergency of war to make us vigorous and efficient; it will take the sting of many defeats to impose that humility which will be the beginning of our regeneration.
We must be out of the tracks we were about nine hundred miles out when we struck; and the current sticks to the fog-belt here about west-sou'west but that's the surface water. These deep fellows have currents of their own. There's no fog; we must be to the southward of the belt between the Lanes. They'll run their boats in the other Lane after this, I think the money-grabbing wretches.
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