Chapter

 1   Int|       terrible experiences in the Seraglio are largely, if not entirely,
 2     I|         and of the damsels of the Seraglio, who were even fairer to
 3     I|        the Bosphorus, wherein the Seraglio and the suburbs of Pera
 4   III|        through the windows of the Seraglio, the two Ulemas who are
 5   III|         Magnificent, and that his Seraglio was no joyless abode was
 6   III|        had happened to her at the Seraglio, in the kiosks of the Kiaja
 7   III|           in the vestibule of the Seraglio. They desired, he said,
 8   III|       Sheiks. And in front of the Seraglio were set up three lofty
 9   III|          to the very gates of the Seraglio, along with the sugar gardens
10   III|            What brings you to the Seraglio, my worthy counsellors?"
11   III|    withdrew.~ ~At the gate of the Seraglio the Chief Mufti said to
12    IV|         was taken to the Sultan's Seraglio."~ ~"You will never get
13    IV|           my girl out of the very Seraglio itself. Wealth is a mightier
14    IV|         to the slave-women of the Seraglio, who immediately conducted
15    IV|      describe the interior of the Seraglio so vividly that I almost
16    IV|         the secret dungeon of the Seraglio, followed by the sound of
17    IV|         would be missing from the Seraglio. All these victims were
18    IV|    evening the Sultan came to the Seraglio weary and inclined to relaxation,
19    IV|           in a remote part of the Seraglio, for although every joy
20    IV|       never permitted to quit the Seraglio. The Sultana herself led
21    IV|      brought the girl back to the Seraglio before she had spent a single
22     V|         Etmeidan, in front of the Seraglio, in the doors of the mosques,
23     V|           which thou quittest the Seraglio she will take this poison,
24     V|          Can they be heard in the Seraglio?"~ ~"Yea, and the songs
25     V|         was heard in front of the Seraglio.~ ~"Hearken how they call
26     V|       again be conducted into the Seraglio. She and your father-in-law
27     V|        with velvet took it to the Seraglio, and when he got there sent
28     V|           to the very door of the Seraglio, and there he gently removed
29     V|       prayer in the chapel of the Seraglio instead of in the mosque
30     V|           over every clock in the Seraglio had struck twelve.~ ~Ibrahim
31     V|         in the outer court of the Seraglio where stood the Sultan's
32     V|        borne before him.~ ~In the Seraglio all the clocks one after
33   VII|          front of the Gate of the Seraglio, let the Chief Mufti and
34   VII|          bostanjis, who guard the Seraglio, and let them clear the
35  VIII|          of Cannons.~ ~Inside the Seraglio none knew anything of the
36  VIII|        summons he appeared in the Seraglio. He declared that the rebels
37  VIII|            Sulali returned to the Seraglio.~ ~"Halil permits the Chief
38  VIII|          front of the gate of the Seraglio. Let all true believers
39  VIII|      streets to announce that the Seraglio is in danger, and let all
40  VIII|           defend the gates of the Seraglio."~ ~The two grey beards
41  VIII|           the central gate of the Seraglio, and there it remained till
42  VIII|         by itself in front of the Seraglio. Nobody assembled beneath
43  VIII|         Banner on the gate of the Seraglio is a rare event in history.
44  VIII|         which the dwellers in the Seraglio were plunged when they saw
45  VIII|     forwards in the garden of the Seraglio. The Kizlar-Aga came there
46  VIII|           through the gate of the Seraglio down to the open space before
47  VIII|   insurgents were approaching the Seraglio from some other direction
48  VIII|         of anyone threatening the Seraglio.~ ~Then the Kizlar-Aga led
49  VIII|           which befell her in the Seraglio, in the captivity of the
50  VIII|        the piazza in front of the Seraglio, at the foot of the very
51    IX|          oath he will blow up the Seraglio and every living soul within
52    IX|           that the cellars of the Seraglio are full of gunpowder, and
53    IX|         all the apartments of the Seraglio and lasted till midnight.
54    IX|           coloured windows of the Seraglio when the magnates withdrew
55    IX|           Sheiks, appeared in the Seraglio to greet the new Sultan.
56    IX|           that the cellars of the Seraglio were full of gunpowder,
57    IX|           the invitation from the Seraglio.~ ~"It is a mere ruse,"
58    IX|      Ulemas, and send them to the Seraglio. Then, if we see them return
59    IX|           I myself will go to the Seraglio."~ ~Some of them regarded
60    IX|           instead of going to the Seraglio where there are now none
61    IX|           no weapon may enter the Seraglio) and handing it to Musli; "
62    IX|   accompanied him right up to the Seraglio. Into it indeed they did
63    IX|        saw Halil pass through the Seraglio gates they set up a terrific
64    IX|   multitudes assembled around the Seraglio. Those within it trembled,
65    IX| trumpet-blast at the gates of the Seraglio, that at the desire of Halil
66    IX|        made the very walls of the Seraglio tremble was ample evidence
67    IX|        between the mosque and the Seraglio. The cannons of the Bosphorus
68    IX|          he had ventured into the Seraglio everyone had obeyed his
69     X|        back and try to regain the Seraglio.~ ~Adsalis cast a contemptuous
70     X|        and shame, returned to the Seraglio. Sobbing aloud, she cast
71    XI|      Vizier. You have been in the Seraglio already, let mine be the
72   XII|     guardian of the ladies of the Seraglio, accompanied by two slave-girls
73   XII|         to be reconciled with the Seraglio and reassemble beneath the
74   XII|        let us all assemble in the Seraglio to lay our desires before
75   XII|       them to follow him into the Seraglio.~ ~Once there he conducted
76   XII|       central[Pg 267] gate of the Seraglio. All these heads, with their
77   XII|      baltajis who dwelt round the Seraglio, and when everyone was in