Chapter

  1   Int|          historical basis of Jókai's[Pg 8] famous story, "A Fehér
  2   Int|             Thousand and One Nights.[Pg 9]~ ~Finally - a bibliographical
  3   Int|          Bain.~ ~September, 1901.~ ~[Pg 11][Pg 10]~ ~HALIL THE PEDLAR.~ ~ ~ ~
  4   Int|           September, 1901.~ ~[Pg 11][Pg 10]~ ~HALIL THE PEDLAR.~ ~ ~ ~
  5     I|              holy. And certainly the[Pg 12] Shiites must be great
  6     I|            were about to depart from[Pg 13] the minarets of Stambul.
  7     I|            mosque, which looks right[Pg 14] over all these palaces
  8     I|          should venture to cross the[Pg 15] piazza of the Etmeidan
  9     I|             for the very first time.[Pg 16]~ ~The other was an honest
 10     I|             near to the very place I[Pg 17] want to avoid. I prythee
 11     I|              a butcher at Jassy. The[Pg 18] kavasses have laid their
 12     I|               I suppose this is some[Pg 19] good-humoured Janissary,
 13     I|         terrified whisper, "wouldn't[Pg 20] it be as well if you
 14     I|       already half-dead with terror.[Pg 21] With the utmost obsequiousness
 15     I|              that held the yataghan.[Pg 22]~ ~"What do you want?"
 16     I|           his hand so heavily on the[Pg 23] Janissary's head that
 17     I|           ignorance of locality, for[Pg 24] in the place where Patrona
 18     I|          bench covered with a carpet[Pg 25] in the corner, a few
 19     I|             for a drop of water, and[Pg 26] how Allah had had compassion
 20     I|              to sleep. Plainly these[Pg 27] were the only cushion
 21     I|           all sorts of eatables, and[Pg 28] made it a matter of
 22     I|          a-bargaining in the bazaar,[Pg 29] and returned with what
 23     I|           and God bless you for it!"[Pg 30]~ ~Halil at once turned
 24     I|             the letter to the money-[Pg 31]changer in order that
 25     I|             have got to do with it."[Pg 32]~ ~This was true enough.
 26     I|           was mad?" exclaimed Halil,[Pg 33] after reading through
 27     I|         finger in his own blood, and[Pg 34] then scrawled the names
 28     I|            the house on a spot where[Pg 35] Pelivan's name could
 29     I|         happened to come in his way.[Pg 36]~ ~ ~ ~
 30    II|              contradiction, but they[Pg 37] took good care to sell
 31    II|            lofty iron railings. This[Pg 38] vacant space was a slave-market.
 32    II|             general auction that had[Pg 39] come round after the
 33    II|             might just as well chalk[Pg 40] up the names of the
 34    II|             and hearing of all men."[Pg 41]~ ~"What crime has this
 35    II|           when it blushes? What must[Pg 42] that mouth be like when
 36    II|             my house, but you can go[Pg 43] in and out of it as
 37    II|              still want to die, eh?"[Pg 44]~ ~"Your own eyes can
 38    II|             that breast was not only[Pg 45] snow-white but throbbing
 39    II|             for sale in the bazaar."[Pg 46]~ ~The girl looked at
 40    II|          fled from it, the eyes were[Pg 47] cast down, the lips
 41    II|           platters. Only after a few[Pg 48] moments had elapsed
 42    II|             Gül-Olü, the Dead Rose."[Pg 49]~ ~ ~ ~
 43   III|         simple, hexagonal room, with[Pg 50] lofty, gold-entrellised
 44   III|              events, in fact, he did[Pg 51] not trouble his head
 45   III|             this that the barbers in[Pg 52] Stambul also, even when
 46   III|            bottom of the matter. For[Pg 53] a long time nobody dared
 47   III|       beautiful form which puts even[Pg 54] the houris of Paradise
 48   III|             her away wrath thereat?"[Pg 55]~ ~"Nay, on the contrary,
 49   III|          binis heavy with turquoise,[Pg 56] the Silihdar buckled
 50   III|           light of thy countenance."[Pg 57]~ ~At these words the
 51   III|             the war, and the foreign[Pg 58] ambassadors - and praised
 52   III|         turned thy face away from me[Pg 59] I saw a vision. And
 53   III|        nuptials were proceeded with,[Pg 60] the Kiaja representing
 54   III|            there was a show of bears[Pg 61] and apes, which sported
 55   III|           Feast of Lamps and Tulips,[Pg 62] which was renewed every
 56   III|            the Persian rebel, Esref,[Pg 63] to drive his lawful
 57   III|              I have already gathered[Pg 64] together thy host on
 58   III|             of felicity. The Sultana[Pg 65] Asseki at dawn to-day
 59   III|        clouds presaging a storm, are[Pg 66] coming in from every
 60   III|              well as from beside the[Pg 67] waters of the Pruth,
 61   III|          they take an oath or make a[Pg 68] promise they recite
 62   III| puspáng-trees to look at his tulips.[Pg 69]~ ~ ~ ~
 63    IV|             midnight, nay, sometimes[Pg 70] till daybreak. With
 64    IV|              day - the Greek Janaki.[Pg 71]~ ~"Ah, 'tis thou, musafir!
 65    IV|                  Why can it not be?"[Pg 72]~ ~"Because I would rather
 66    IV|              with some companions on[Pg 73] a pleasure excursion
 67    IV|         earth to get my money. For I[Pg 74] carry a great deal of
 68    IV|             Greek wayfarer uttered a[Pg 75] loud cry, and pitching
 69    IV|              what price you put upon[Pg 76] her that I may buy her
 70    IV|          took her hands and caressed[Pg 77] and fondled her to her
 71    IV|           resinous to a degree. Wash[Pg 78] and scrub them as he
 72    IV|            and made merry with them.[Pg 79]~ ~And now Janaki sent
 73    IV|             yonder as I was passing.[Pg 80] If it will not put you
 74    IV|              tale, most beautiful of[Pg 81] women!" said he, wiping
 75    IV|            to their hearts' content.[Pg 82] Suddenly the sail of
 76    IV|            whose office it is to pur[Pg 83]chase slave-girls for
 77    IV|       fathers did not know his name.[Pg 84]~ ~"Pomp and splendour,
 78    IV|      sporting with the golden balls.[Pg 85] Along the whole length
 79    IV|           what Sultan it took place?[Pg 86]... So they led the slave-girl
 80    IV|             her eyelashes brown. She[Pg 87] commanded them also
 81    IV|        reverse - it all depends upon[Pg 88] the point of view. The
 82    IV|          Padishah, and presented her[Pg 89] to him, together with
 83    IV|              was all in vain. At the[Pg 90] name of the Blessed
 84    IV|            cast into the Bosphorus."[Pg 91]~ ~"Why, 'tis only a
 85    IV|        produced no impression on the[Pg 92] dead. Her heart bled
 86    IV|         pricked up his ears and grew[Pg 93] terribly attentive when
 87    IV|            there is not more of it!"[Pg 94]~ ~"Oh, no regrets, worthy
 88    IV|             and loads of treasure to[Pg 95] Ali Kermesh if only
 89    IV|              Ali Kermesh!" cried he.[Pg 96]~ ~"Silence thou dog!
 90    IV|     inquiries about his lost Berber-[Pg 97]Bashi. It is known that
 91    IV|          much time for leave-taking.[Pg 98] The Debedjis who had
 92    IV|             arrived at the Etmeidan.[Pg 99]~ ~ ~ ~
 93     V|            carriages. The mob in its[Pg 100] thousands follows them
 94     V|           rays of the sun. The whole[Pg 101] of the grass plain
 95     V|             the haughty Janissaries.[Pg 102]~ ~And certainly they
 96     V|              is no longer there. The[Pg 103] Sultana Asseki sends
 97     V|             if thy house was on fire[Pg 104] and thy beloved was
 98     V|          stood a small goblet filled[Pg 105] with a bluish transparent
 99     V|          thou art far away even when[Pg 106] thou art sitting close
100     V|           continue thundering on the[Pg 107] shores of the Bosphorus,
101     V|              compelled to fill these[Pg 108] same kettles either
102     V|              them against the enemy.[Pg 109]~ ~The Janissary Aga
103     V|              cried Musli, turning to[Pg 110] his comrades, "that
104     V|             all sorts of variations.[Pg 111] He had described to
105     V|              Janissaries, and here I[Pg 112] stand where it has
106     V|          malicious scorn in his gaze[Pg 113] that Halil involuntarily
107     V|               exclaimed Musli, where[Pg 114]upon the Janissaries
108     V|          this presumptuous message a[Pg 115] declaration of rebellion,
109     V|           depths of his soul when he[Pg 116] understood it. He was
110     V|           escape. He knew he was not[Pg 117] capable of translating
111     V|             Sheik of the Aja Sophia,[Pg 118] Ispirizade, were assembled
112     V|           glanced impatiently at the[Pg 119] three magnificent clocks
113     V|           pressing, it was necessary[Pg 120] to recite this prayer
114     V|            was full of all manner of[Pg 121] fantastic sentiments.
115     V|           but will come to Stambul."[Pg 122]~ ~The host is coming
116     V|           which marks the afternoon.[Pg 123]~ ~ ~ ~
117    VI|             all that, the rest would[Pg 124] pay no heed to him,
118    VI|              middle of a mosque. The[Pg 125] letter was apparently
119    VI|             Waters, to take leave of[Pg 126] his odalisks for the
120    VI|             And all this is going on[Pg 127] while the Grand Vizier
121    VI|      inhabitants, and only appear in[Pg 128] the light of day when
122    VI|             of the mob. This was the[Pg 129] usual signal for the
123    VI|             pair of heels, whereupon[Pg 130] a mob of women, like
124    VI|            descends at last into the[Pg 131] loathsome hole but
125    VI|             and exhibiting that pale[Pg 132] and forlorn figure
126    VI|              their faces in the dust[Pg 133] before their new mistress,
127    VI|             a sick and broken woman.[Pg 134]~ ~ ~ ~
128   VII|            be found in the Dead Moun[Pg 135]tains. A judicious intermingling
129   VII|           period of their existence.[Pg 136]~ ~On the very evening
130   VII|            fifteen hundred Venetians[Pg 137] who had fallen at its
131   VII|           towards him at full speed,[Pg 138] quite out of breath,
132   VII|              will of Allah be done!"[Pg 139]~ ~But the Kapudan Pasha,
133   VII|         direct road straight through[Pg 140] Stambul, he insinuated
134   VII|            mob assembled around him:[Pg 141]~ ~"Inhabitants of Stambul,
135   VII|            race that I might be able[Pg 142] to heap upon you all
136   VII|             dogs!" thundered Abdi to[Pg 143] the assembled merchants
137   VII|          might turn into four-footed[Pg 144] beasts who can do nothing
138   VII|              he got here? Not one of[Pg 145] them dared to draw
139   VII|           Pasha, and I will not hurt[Pg 146] you if you go away.
140   VII|           and the Janissary Aga, the[Pg 147] Sultan had called together
141   VII|              plan of the Sultana. In[Pg 148] the opinion of the
142   VII|            that had come among them.[Pg 149]~ ~"You have been in
143   VII|             help to smooth matters."[Pg 150]~ ~All the viziers were
144   VII|          names, one after the other,[Pg 151] the Padishah did not
145   VII|        whereupon Damad Ibrahim sadly[Pg 152] bent his head, and
146   VII|           all and then fall himself.[Pg 153]~ ~ ~ ~
147  VIII|            the Prophet was jealously[Pg 154] guarded, he rubbed
148  VIII|              commanded the Padishah.[Pg 155]~ ~"It is a pity to
149  VIII|          their way through the thick[Pg 156] crowd which thronged
150  VIII|              the Grand Vizier, whose[Pg 157] palace in the Galata
151  VIII|             disperse thy following."[Pg 158]~ ~Then Halil Patrona
152  VIII|             they will be satisfied."[Pg 159]~ ~With tottering footsteps
153  VIII|               he spoke in his wrath.[Pg 160] What! I am to slay
154  VIII|          must die," he answered. "As[Pg 161] for Abdullah, he may
155  VIII|              early the next evening.[Pg 162]~ ~At dawn the criers
156  VIII|          side went away again on the[Pg 163] other, and in the afternoon
157  VIII|           looking to see whether the[Pg 164] Kiaja, the Kapudan,
158  VIII|            Abdullah burst into tears[Pg 165] and sobs, and said
159  VIII|           ago," observed the Kapudan[Pg 166] Pasha. "Our corpses
160  VIII|              the life of man.~ ~ ~ ~[Pg 167]~ ~Meanwhile Sultan
161  VIII|             the past."~ ~"Be it so!"[Pg 168]~ ~"Next they demand
162  VIII|          there in search of him, and[Pg 169] with him were the envoys
163  VIII|             young fellows together."[Pg 170]~ ~"What is thy name?~ ~"
164  VIII|          Kizlar-Aga tormented Achmed[Pg 171] with the saying of
165  VIII|            kissed the Sultan's feet.[Pg 172]~ ~"Because the rebels
166  VIII|             bring any tidings back."[Pg 173]~ ~The Sultan was in
167  VIII|         makes her tell him once more[Pg 174] the full tale of all
168  VIII|            is that?" inquired Halil.[Pg 175]~ ~Gül-Bejáze's tender
169  VIII|        because of me, and men cannot[Pg 176] sleep because of the
170  VIII|            old man?" inquired Halil.[Pg 177]~ ~"My name is Manoli,
171  VIII|            hastened into the mosque.[Pg 178]~ ~The Sultan's ambassadors
172  VIII|         those who sent thee hither!"[Pg 179]~ ~ ~ ~
173    IX|             the child to his breast.[Pg 180]~ ~"Thou wilt see that
174    IX|            answers to my questions."[Pg 181]~ ~And still the Ulemas
175    IX|          turn to stone and the light[Pg 182] of day grow dim before
176    IX|           they will do no harm to my[Pg 183] children. Let them
177    IX|          sufficient strength of mind[Pg 184] to endure the gaze
178    IX|        across his breast and smiled.[Pg 185]~ ~Then the chief imam
179    IX|              and sitting down on the[Pg 186] last step of the throne
180    IX|          kissed him on the forehead.[Pg 187]~ ~"The people desire
181    IX|         which he was never to behold[Pg 188] again, abandoning,
182    IX|           Mahmud and did him homage.[Pg 189]~ ~The long procession
183    IX|              peris of loveliness had[Pg 190] preferred eternal loveless
184    IX|            of the cold vaults of the[Pg 191] Place of Oblivion,
185    IX|              them a piece of advice.[Pg 192]~ ~"'Twill be best,"
186    IX|            be afraid on my account?"[Pg 193]~ ~"But, prythee, bethink
187    IX|       against me, and no lance that [Pg 194]ever hath left the smith'
188    IX|          others also began to bestir[Pg 195] themselves, and when
189    IX|            of pearls. At the foot of[Pg 196] a sofa placed on an
190    IX|              utterly eclipsed by the[Pg 197] splendour which radiated
191    IX|             one among them who could[Pg 198] withstand the fire
192    IX|              by my ancestors that no[Pg 199] harm shall befall thee.
193    IX|             them. Through the closed[Pg 200] doors resounded the
194    IX|        cannons of the Bosphorus sent[Pg 201] thundering messages
195    IX|              Halil Patrona demanded.[Pg 202]~ ~Ispirizade had already
196    IX|           spectators to one another.[Pg 203]~ ~ ~ ~
197     X|           may have become the first.[Pg 204]~ ~So now also a petty
198     X|        boundary-posts in the suburbs[Pg 205] of the city, that strangers
199     X|             despair: "Why have I not[Pg 206] a hundred, why have
200     X|          wail or scream may be heard[Pg 207] round the corner of
201     X|          almost tame and spiritless.[Pg 208]~ ~Suddenly one of these
202     X|       finally resolving to carry her[Pg 209] all the way home for
203     X|             with them were advancing[Pg 210] ten thousand intoxicated
204     X|        through them for the Sultana.[Pg 211]~ ~Ah! before they had
205     X|          clothes, and then by way of[Pg 212] mockery remounting
206     X|             way before a pale doll?"[Pg 213]~ ~"This woman comes
207     X|           Adsalis! Sultana Adsalis!"[Pg 214]~ ~"Ha! a man! a man!"
208     X|           awe, and began to withdraw[Pg 215] from her, and she herself
209     X|            fruit before it is ripe?"[Pg 216]~ ~ ~ ~
210    XI|              her, but she feasts her[Pg 217] delighted eyes on the
211    XI|      Sentences of the Future," which[Pg 218] was written a century
212    XI|              double cross raised on [Pg 219]the towers of the mosques,
213    XI|         Heaven, they long after the [Pg 220]warm climates where
214    XI|        against those men of ice, and[Pg 221] they will enter the
215    XI|            thoughts meet for no mere[Pg 222] mortal. Poor indeed
216    XI|           suggested to him that the [Pg 223]God to Whom he prayed
217    XI|          tinkling of the sheep-bells[Pg 224] will be heard on the
218    XI|            the women of this world."[Pg 225]~ ~Halil listened with
219    XI|           Morhut there to await the [Pg 226]judgment-day. And when
220    XI|             have richly distributed [Pg 227]the Zakato14 and the
221    XI|         prayers when we say that we [Pg 228]worship Allah and yet
222    XI|             knowledge; but how can a[Pg 229] Mussulman raise his
223    XI|             It is from thence we get[Pg 230] our rulers and our
224    XI|             piazzas, although, as we[Pg 231] all know, no figures
225    XI|            of Wallachia; instead of [Pg 232]Ghyka they placed the
226    XI|              earnestly of Halil that[Pg 233] the delivery of these
227    XI|           bawling at a Grand Vizier.[Pg 234]~ ~"Halil Patrona commands
228    XI|            head about me, Kabakulak,[Pg 235] while there are so
229    XI|             hear. You want him to be[Pg 236] allowed to provide
230    XI|            favour of Halil Patrona!"[Pg 237]~ ~Kabakulak by this
231    XI|           sent after me here. I look[Pg 238] to you for coffee and
232    XI|              Christian world; but he[Pg 239] undertook to dilapidate
233    XI|       valiantly for it in this life.[Pg 240]~ ~ ~ ~
234   XII|           understood the meaning of.[Pg 241] And those lines and
235   XII|          child, a little baby child.[Pg 242] A few days before Gül-Bejáze
236   XII|          wandered from hand to hand;[Pg 243] how they embraced and
237   XII|            sends thee this sherbet!"[Pg 244] The Sultana Validé,
238   XII|        gratitude to a poor oppressed[Pg 245] pedlar, the Sultana
239   XII|              his enthusiastic way he[Pg 246] addressed them, the
240   XII|            officers who had a grudge[Pg 247] against Halil for enforcing
241   XII|           arrived; there were seven-[Pg 248]and-twenty of them,
242   XII|              murderers? And lo! what[Pg 249] is more than our houses,
243   XII|           and most shameful imprints[Pg 250] - if I say this foe
244   XII|              replied in these words:[Pg 251]~ ~"It is a great calamity
245   XII|              had fallen into a trap.[Pg 252] He addressed the Khan
246   XII|              you very well know that[Pg 253] it was the Muscovite
247   XII|       flashing sword in his hand.~ ~[Pg 254]~ ~Ah! but now it was
248   XII|          gardens where we may settle[Pg 255] the business out of
249   XII|    resolutions," said he, "cannot be[Pg 256] carried into effect
250   XII|             opens his mouth he turns[Pg 257] every drawn sword against
251   XII|              impulse of his muscular[Pg 258] arms. The child rejoiced
252   XII|             little hut stands on the[Pg 259] banks of a purling
253   XII|           shall so soon meet again."[Pg 260]~ ~Meanwhile they had
254   XII|         evening he saw his abandoned[Pg 261] wife still standing
255   XII|     Janissaries stepped out of their[Pg 262] ranks, declaring that
256   XII|             and presently Kabakulak,[Pg 263] Topal Ozman, Patsmajezade,
257   XII|              Seignior himself awaits[Pg 264] thee in the Porcelain
258   XII|           the doors of the Porcelain[Pg 265] Chamber bulged out,
259   XII|             eyes to Heaven and said:[Pg 266]~ ~"It is the will of
260   XII|              spears over the central[Pg 267] gate of the Seraglio.
261   XII|               Wait not for Halil, he[Pg 268] is dead. The Janissaries
262   XII|           collected together the ten[Pg 269] thousand shebejis,
263   XII|              says he died by poison.[Pg 270]~ ~ ~ ~
264  XIII|             from her bed to open it.[Pg 271]~ ~It is not Halil but
265  XIII|            joy, follows her mistress[Pg 272] into the room where
266  XIII|         someone. She keeps on asking[Pg 273] him questions and listening
267  XIII|              as soon as the sun sets[Pg 274] she leaves everyone
268  XIII|               and she compares their[Pg 275] faces one with the
269  XIII|        Janissaries.~ ~ ~ ~THE END.~ ~Pg 276]~ ~[Pg 277]~ ~
270  XIII|                THE END.~ ~Pg 276]~ ~[Pg 277]~ ~
271   Sel|            SONS'~ LIST OF FICTION~ ~[Pg 278]~ ~Maurus Jókai's Famous
272   Sel|                Pall Mall Gazette.~ ~[Pg 279]~ ~In Tight Places. (
273   Sel|             charm." - Literature.~ ~[Pg 280]~ ~The Lion of Janina. (
274   Sel|      personality." - The Speaker.~ ~[Pg 281]~ ~The Gray House of
275   Sel|                  Daily Telegraph.~ ~[Pg 282]~ ~The Tone King. (Third
276   Sel|            Nature." - Daily News.~ ~[Pg 283]~ ~The Poor Plutocrats. (
277   Sel|             is fresh." - The Sun.~ ~[Pg 284]~ ~Cherry Ripe. (35th
278   Sel|      excellent story." - Bookman.~ ~[Pg 285]~ ~Hungarian Literature:~ ~
279   Sel|        educated English readers."~ ~[Pg 286]~ ~"Thomas Moore":~ ~
280   Sel|              good-natured story."~ ~[Pg 287]~ ~The "GREENBACK" Series~ ~
281   Sel|              32)~ BRITOMART. (45)~ ~[Pg 288]~ ~JOHN MACKIE.~ ~THE