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Updated: May 7, 2025
The slaves and servants saw the tschorbadji, supported by Mohammed, limp to the palanquin; Osman followed them with firm footstep, his head proudly erect. The people rejoiced in his stately appearance, and in the glittering uniform that became him so well. Osman was carried down to Praousta at his father's side.
"And yet I wish I had this young lion in my power," said Cousrouf, gnashing his teeth with rage, as he followed the governor. "I should extract his teeth, and prove to the monster that he was not a lion, but only a miserable cat, to be trodden under my feet!" The tschorbadji drew him away more rapidly, that Mohammed might not hear him.
Would you bend your heads to save the heads of our noblest men? Would you go to the tschorbadji and say Here is the double tax. You do us injustice, yet we humble ourselves in order to save the lives of our sheik and the ulemas! Say, would you do this?" The people made no reply, but cast sorrowful glances at each other, and whispered among themselves
"It is very strange that I find here no one but Mohammed Ali, the son of Ibrahim Aga. Had I known that the tschorbadji had sent a boy to me, I would have required him to bring me the message." "I summoned you in the name of the tscborbadji, and in his name I stand here!" said Mohammed, proudly. "I am not a boy, as you are pleased to call me, but an acknowledged authority.
You have always been friendly to me, and I shall never forget what you did for me the other day." "What was it?" asked the tschorbadji, with surprise. "You know nothing of it, father. I did not mention it to you because I feared it might make you angry," replied Osman, gently. "I had had myself carried out on the rock.
"The sheik would not forgive us; he gave strict orders that we should not pay." "But his life, and the lives of the ulemas are at stake," murmured one of them. "Yes, his life is at stake!" cried Masa, who had heard this. "I entreat you to grant my request. Let each of you go after the tax he has laid by, and then come with me, all of you, to the tschorbadji. I will attend to the rest."
For many days he remained entirely unconscious of all that was going on around him. He lay there coffined in his grief, as in living death. They cooled his feverish brow, and poured strengthening cordials between his lips. The magi cians and sorcerers, as well as the physicians of Cavalla and the neighboring cities, were summoned to his assistance by the tschorbadji and his son.
Our tobacco- crops have failed; our fishing-nets, with all the fish we had taken, have been lost in the storms. Tell us, then, for what reasons we must pay a double tax?" "The reasons, my dear fishermen," said the collectors "the reasons are, that the tschorbadji commands it, and his commands must be obeyed, because the grand-sultan has made him your governor."
Inform them that an ambassador has come from the tschorbadji, to bring them an important message. Each of you three must bring one of the ulemas with you, and the fourth must bring the sheik here to me.
Come, grant me the pleasure of your company, and let me seek to soften your heart, and incline you to mercy." "Impossible," said Mohammed, sternly. "If we yield now, the tschorbadji's authority is forever lost." "But," said the tschorbadji, who joined them at that moment, "what is to come of all this, if the prisoners do not submit?"
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