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"What brings you to the Seraglio, my worthy counsellors?" inquired the Sultan. As was meet and right, the Chief Mufti was the first to speak. "Most gracious, most puissant master! Be merciful towards us if with our words we disturb the tranquil joys of thy existence!
He was aware of the pallor and chill of his looks, and it was no marvel to him when two sbirri in mufti, foreign to Milan, set their eyes on him as they passed by to a vacant table on the farther side of the pattering gold-fish pool, where he sat. He divined that they might be in pursuit of the Guidascarpi, and alive to read a troubled visage.
At first he had not been genial; but when he had grasped the fact that mufti invariably cloaked the British officer, en permission, he had become more friendly. He advised dinner; in these days, as he truly remarked, one never knows. Also, what was England going to do? "Fight," Draycott answered promptly, with an assurance he did not feel. "Fight, mon Colonel; ça va sans dire."
But he said quietly to the soldier: "I would like to see M. de Cassaud, the Commissaire of Police." Hillyard was led apart; his card was taken from him; he was ushered instantly into an office where an elderly French officer sat in mufti before a table. He shook Hillyard cordially by the hand. "You pass through? I myself hope to visit Barcelona again very soon.
Keene, eager to assist, undertook to penetrate, in mufti, the lower and more disreputable parts of the town, and to haunt the wharves upon the chance of picking up some small item of information relating to the mysterious brig which might prove of service to us. But all our efforts availed us nothing, for on the eighth day after our arrival we were no better off than we had been at the beginning.
"My God! Peddle," cried Doggie, scratching his closely cropped head. "What the devil's all this?" Peddle, grey, bent, uncomprehending, regarded him blankly. "All what, sir?" "I only want to wash my hands," said Doggie. "But aren't you going to dress for dinner, sir?" "A private soldier's not allowed to wear mufti, Peddle. They'd dock me of a week's pay if they found out."
He was born at Telemsan some time in the latter half of the sixteenth century, and educated by his uncle, who held the office of Mufti in that city; but having quitted his native country in 1618 on a pilgrimage to Mekka, he married and settled in Cairo.
On one occasion, a European general who, together with the governor, was granted an audience by Him, was so impressed that he “remained kneeling on the ground near the door.” Shaykh ‘Alíy-i-Mírí, the Muftí of Akká, had even, at the suggestion of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, to plead insistently that He might permit the termination of His nine-year confinement within the walls of the prison-city, before He would consent to leave its gates.
There are neither windows, nor doors, nor any kind of barrier, between the exterior and the interior. My old mufti, who, at the age of ninety, possesses numerous wives, the oldest of whom is only thirty, and children of all ages, from the baby of six months, up to the sexagenarian, professes the repugnance of good taste for the noise, disorder, and uncleanness of the harem.
Hanaud beckoned towards the sergent-de-ville. "Perrichet will make an excellent detective," he said; "for he looks more bovine and foolish in plain clothes than he does in uniform." Perrichet advanced in his mufti to the table. "Speak, my friend," said Hanaud. "I went to the shop of M. Corval. Mlle. Celie was quite alone when she bought the cord.
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