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Updated: June 22, 2025
I promised to be prudent, but I did not keep my promise; for, three or four days afterwards, an old slave woman met me in the street, and offered to sell me for one piaster a tobacco-bag embroidered in gold; and as she put it in my hand she contrived to make me feel that there was a letter in the bag.
The uneven, stone-cobbled paving of the narrow streets without sidewalks, the steps up and down the grades, and the slippery condition of the muddy surface when wet caused weary feet. "I will not give away another piaster," exclaimed a lady whose purse had been drawn upon frequently during our tramp. "I never met such disagreeable beggars.
One evening, as we were taking tea, we were informed that the vessels from Acapulco had been telegraphed, and that the next morning they would be in; our piasters were to be on board; I leave you to guess if our wishes were not gratified. But, alas! how our hopes were frustrated: the vessels did not bring us a single piaster.
"And why should he be still?" asked Cousrouf, in cold, cutting tones. "He is merely telling a story learned from the scha-er. You know, tschorbadji, it is customary to pay story-tellers, and give them a piaster. Here, take your pay, you little scha-er." The pacha drew from his silken purse, filled with gold-pieces, a ducat, and threw it at the boy's feet.
I promised to be prudent, but I did not keep my promise; for, three or four days afterwards, an old slave woman met me in the street, and offered to sell me for one piaster a tobacco-bag embroidered in gold; and as she put it in my hand she contrived to make me feel that there was a letter in the bag.
It was against such a danger that she had long ago stolen a garden key, a key to the outer world in which she had neither a friend nor a piaster to save her.... "My dear father," she said entreatingly, "please do not tell me that you really mean that you really think you would like to that you would consider this man " He turned on her a suddenly direct, confessing look.
That journey was a great cost a terribly bad speculation," he went on, shaking his mottled, bluish head wofully. "Not a piaster of profit." "We will see to that," said Clara. "And then, when I am of age but wait." She shook her rosy forefinger gayly, radiant with the joy of generosity, and added, "You shall see. Wait!"
"Let's hope they ride back to the consul and swear they haven't received one piaster of their pay. That would let him know we're clear away!" "Optimist!" jeered Will. "That consul's a Britisher. He'd take their lie literally, and deduce we're no good!"
Sirkedji, the landing-place on the Stamboul side of the Golden Horn, is always a scene of bustle and noise. The Caiquedjis, striving for custom, cry at the top of their voices: "I am bound for Haskeuy; I can take another man; my fare is a piaster!" Others call in lusty tones, that they are bound for Karakeuy.
All they ask is to be let alone! Ever see a single piaster of profit made out of a dead Indian unless you could sell his hair? Of course not. The Indians don't want war. What they want is trade. I've lived among 'em. I know. It's Dunmore and the border scum who want war. They want to steal more land."
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