valedee

Updated: May 27, 2025

"He come every morning to Galata Bridge for you me. He say, too, if any trouble while you paint I go him ah, effendi, it is only Joe Hornstog can do these things. The Pasha, he know me all good Turk-men know me. Where we paint now, subito? In the plaza, or in the patio of the Valedee, like last year?" "Neither. We go first to the Mosque of Suleiman.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women