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Updated: June 26, 2025
In front and on each side of the fairy band march four hundred black eunuchs, with naked broadswords across their shoulders, looking up at the windows of the houses before which they march to see whether, perchance, any inquisitive Peeping-Toms are lurking there. Dancing and singing, this bevy of peris traverses the principal streets of Stambul.
Just as he was kneeling down in the midst of the tulips, with his hands all covered with mould, a breathless bostanji came rushing towards him at full speed, quite out of breath, and without waiting to get up to him, exclaimed while still a good distance off: "Sir, sir, rise up quickly, for all Stambul is in a commotion."
Here the eyes of the father and the husband involuntarily filled with tears. "Wherefore do you weep? How silly of you! Why, you know, of course, it is only a tale. Listen now to how it goes on! The robber carried the maiden he had stolen to Stambul. He took her straight to the Kizlar-Aga whose office it is to purchase slave-girls for the harem of the Padishah. The bargaining did not take long.
It would appear from this that the barbers in Stambul also, even when they rise to the dignity of Berber-Bashis, are expected to follow the course of public events with the utmost attention, in order to communicate the most interesting details thereof to others, and thus relieve the tedium invariably attendant upon shaving.
Such protests do not belong to the women of my country; they are never heard in the zenana, and would provoke derision in the harems of Stambul. "You have trained me to know that life in a harem is not life, but only the existence of an animal." "I have trained you yes. What fate was before you when I intervened in that Mecca slave-market?
"Halil commands that those nasty palaces which stand by the Sweet Waters shall be burnt to the ground." "I suppose, my worthy incendiaries, you will next ask permission to plunder Stambul out and out?" "It is too bad of you, Kabakulak, to speak like that.
"That man," said the Jew, still white with rage, and pointing with his tallow finger at the major-domo, who had risen from the ground "that man contains my grandfather." "What words are these? Explain yourself!" the Cadi cried. "Three weeks ago, O gracious Excellency, my grandfather died in Stambûl.
Who does not prefer the minarets of Stambul and Edirne to the architecture of Budapest, notoriously the ideal of Christian south-eastern Europe? To the races they conquered the Turks offered two alternatives serfdom or Turkdom; those who could not bring themselves to accept either of these had either to emigrate or take to brigandage and outlawry in the mountains.
Addison could better be spared by the community than I. Nahémah's next insanity an open visit to the Abbey Inn confirmed my opinion. Thereupon I committed my first mistake. Cassim, the Nubian mute, who had been in my service for many years, was formerly attached to a great household in Stambûl. I shall probably be understood. I instructed him; and Mr.
Through the windows of the splendid palace penetrate the shouts of triumph which hail Halil as Lord, for the moment, of the city of Stambul and the whole Ottoman Empire. Gül-Bejáze tremulously whispers in Halil's ear how much she would prefer to dwell in a simple, lonely little hut in Anatolia instead of there in that splendid palace.
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