Chapter

 1   Int|    after vainly sacrificing his chief councillors to the fury
 2   Int|       November 25th, he and his chief associates were treacherously
 3   Int|     Halil the Pedlar," from its chief character, may be equally
 4     I|      the Kapudan Pasha, and the chief Imam, Ispirizade; and as
 5   III|          and the Kapu-Agasi, or chief doorkeeper, and the Anakhtar
 6   III|      and the Anakhtar Oglan, or chief key-keeper, hasten to open
 7   III|         servants, Abdullah, the Chief Mufti, and Damad Ibrahim,
 8   III|      popped the Kizlar-Aga, the chief eunuch, a respectable, black-visaged
 9   III|   charmers, after whom came the Chief Mufti, who read aloud a
10   III|       been waiting outside. The Chief Mufti entered first, and
11   III|         was meet and right, the Chief Mufti was the first to speak.~ ~"
12   III|         seemed as if, while the Chief Mufti was speaking, he had
13   III|       be made a reality."~ ~The Chief Mufti folded his hands across
14   III|     will, oh Padishah!" And the Chief Mufti drew aside and was
15   III|   Seignior, and both he and the Chief Mufti withdrew.~ ~At the
16   III|        gate of the Seraglio the Chief Mufti said to the Grand
17    IV|    terror. "You have killed the chief barber of the Sultan!"~ ~"
18     V|        hue; white tents for the chief muftis, bright green tents
19     V|   Kapudan Pasha, the Kiaja, the Chief Mufti, and the Sheik of
20     V|        thereupon he ordered the chief mufti to bring him the Alkoran
21     V|         diamonds. This copy the Chief Mufti brought to the Sultan,
22     V|       which it is usual for the chief Imam to recite in the mosques
23     V|        the Grand Vizier and the Chief Mufti continued to detain
24    VI|       viziers, his princes, the Chief Mufti, and Ispirizade.~ ~
25    VI|          three softas awoke the Chief Mufti and Ispirizade, and
26    VI|        the Grand Vizier and the Chief Mufti have been arranging
27   VII|  announcements:~ ~"Death to the Chief Mufti!~ ~"Death to the Grand
28   VII| commander is Halil Patrona, the chief of the Janissaries, and
29   VII|   Ulemas, the Grand Vizier, the Chief Mufti, the Sheiks, and the
30   VII|      turn would come too.~ ~The Chief Mufti did not believe it
31   VII|       drink then," murmured the Chief Mufti in his beard.~ ~"And
32   VII|        of the Seraglio, let the Chief Mufti and Ispirizade open
33   VII|     side. The Grand Vizier, the Chief Mufti, the Kapudan Pasha,
34  VIII| officers of state - myself, the Chief Mufti, the Grand Vizier,
35  VIII|       called Orli, whom he made chief magistrate. Ibrahim, a whilom
36  VIII|     name of "the Fool," he made chief Cadi of Stambul, and then
37  VIII|          the Kapudan Pasha, the Chief Mufti, and the Grand Vizier."~ ~
38  VIII|        the Grand Vizier and the Chief Mufti," said Sulali.~ ~The
39  VIII|        the Grand Vizier and the Chief Mufti? Slay them, too, for
40  VIII|        the Grand Vizier and the Chief Mufti.~ ~Halil reflected.
41  VIII|  Seraglio.~ ~"Halil permits the Chief Mufti to live, but he demands
42  VIII|         Ispirizade came for the Chief Mufti, and invited him to
43  VIII|       are the four victims. The Chief Mufti perhaps may save his
44  VIII|     Grand Vizier to elect a new Chief Mufti from among the Ulemas.
45  VIII|    demand the banishment of the Chief Mufti."~ ~The Sultan tore
46  VIII|      suddenly become one of the chief dignitaries of the state.~ ~
47  VIII|       with the message that the Chief Mufti might go free.~ ~The
48    IX|         Opposite to him sat the chief imam, Ispirizade. Sulali
49    IX|      smiled.[Pg 185]~ ~Then the chief imam fell down in the dust
50    IX|         the new Sultan, and the chief officers of state, the clergy,
51    IX|          Early next morning the chief captains of the host, the
52    IX|      the room on divans sat the chief dignitaries of the Empire,
53    IX|       mosque.~ ~Ispirizade, the chief imam of the Aja Sophia mosque,
54    IX|       set apart for them.~ ~The chief priest's face was radiant
55    XI|         rowers thereof, and the chief of the gunners, and the
56    XI|    fresh candidates for all the chief offices of the Empire. They
57   XII|    summoned the council and the chief officers of the Army; tell
58   XII|   confusion in the faces of the chief plotters; the well-laid
59   XII|        Ozman, Patsmajezade, the chief Justiciary of Rumelia, the