Chapter

 1 1|      Turkey had been a prey to the political gangrene of which she is
 2 2|    suspected at a court whose sole political idea was hatred of the name
 3 3|         diverted the course of his political manoeuvres. ~For a long
 4 4|   bloodshed, in the midst of great political upheavals, and had neither
 5 7|    consequence of the overwhelming political events which just then absorbed
 6 8|         every intrigue, private or political, throughout the empire.
 7 8|             and to employ him as a political counter-balance to the hospodars
 8 8| exterminate them. I understood the political hatred of the Ottoman Cabinet
 9 9|          wish was to give Greece a political existence, and only requiring
10 9|           a beloved son, whom only political considerations had compelled