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The steward gave the man a receipt, to the effect that he had received a sealed bag containing money. When the poor man returned, he went to the Pasha and received his bag of money. On reaching his room he opened the bag, and to his horror found that it contained, instead of the medjidies he had put in it, copper piasters, which are about the same size as medjidies.
"The unbelievers, who called themselves Christians, came, therefore, with a cross on their arms, and a cross on their banners, conquered El-Kahera, and levied a tribute of many millions of piasters.
"Then he must be of the High Church of that land, which yet holds faithful, christening by immersion, and scorning the interpolation of the swine of Rome. May he be a guide to thee, poor unbaptized one. Now, for the blessing, give me ten piasters!" "Ten piasters!" gasped Iskender. The enraged ecclesiastic pinched the objector's ear, and twisted it until its owner writhed in anguish.
It was not the loss of our piasters that distressed us the most, but the necessity we were in to abandon, or at least to postpone, our journey to France.
"Keep your word to them too! Surely you haven't promised them to make us prisoner?" "But if I am your servant if I must obey you for two piasters a day, how shall I serve my nation?" "Wait and see!" suggested Monty blandly. Kagig bowed stiffly, from the neck.
"Nine hundred," said the officer, with a promptness that attracted the attention of the crowd. "One thousand piasters," said his competitor, as he continued to regard her exquisite and beautiful mould, and her features, so like a picture, in their regular and artistic lines of beauty.
Nay, more the government would allow each hostage four piasters a day for food, a cook would be brought down from Constantinople and meals served in a restaurant, that they might be saved, as his secretary observed, from the unlovely "odeurs de'cuisine." Then it was discovered that the men might stroll about town, provided they were in groups.
People thought the sign very clever, customers came, the young Hodja took in many piasters and he was correspondingly happy. Seeing that Abdul was a manly youth, she went to him and said: "Hodja, I have a difficult letter to write. I have heard that thou art very wise, so I have come to thee. To write the letter thou wilt need all thy wit.
We bought a little of that grain at the rate of thirty pence a handful; the water was got for three francs a glass; it was very good, and none grudged the money it cost. As a glass of water, with a handful of millet, was but a poor dinner for famished people, my father bought two kids, which they would not give him under twenty piasters.
"Fifty thousand piasters!" he squeaked, tottering about the room on his short weak legs and wringing his hands, so that he looked like a fat dog walking on his hind feet. "Fifty thousand piasters! O Madre de Dios! It is nothing. It is nothing. It will not save me from ruin. It will not cover my debts. I shall be sold out. I am ruined. Fifty thousand piasters! O Madre de Dios!"
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