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1004 4 | placing his sons in these exalted positions his only aim was
1005 7 | the most unlikely corners examined, and a skeleton which was
1006 2 | been wrapped. Reports even exceeded the truth, and public opinion
1007 4 | would, their own mountains excepted. The unfortunate tribe divided
1008 9 | grandson, Hussien Pacha, in exchange. After many difficulties,
1009 3 | Ali; the peaceful Selim, exchanging the prison to which his
1010 8 | and helped not a little to excite Ali's ambition by their
1011 5 | number of soldiers he took excited no surprise, as Ali was
1012 8 | Middle Albania before he was exciting a faction against the young
1013 3 | whom hitherto he had loved exclusively, he endeavoured in vain
1014 10| delay his visit. The latter excused himself on the plea of illness,
1015 2 | feigning illness, he sent excuses for inability to pay his
1016 2 | the name of his parents, excusing himself on account of his
1017 10| pardon. ~This deed, formally executed, and bearing more than sixty
1018 7 | How can I serve him?" ~"By executing the present order, sent
1019 1 | Like ignorant farmers, who exhaust fertile fields by forcing
1020 10| his authority. ~After this exhibition, Ali presented one of his
1021 2 | scimitar, will no longer exist to bear witness to my dishonour." ~
1022 5 | attendants. For him there existed no antechamber, no delay;
1023 5 | enclosure with no shelter and no exit, until they fell, struck
1024 3 | as is amply shown in the expansion of his greatness and the
1025 9 | shore of Saint-Nicolas, expecting to unite with the Suliots.
1026 2 | pillage. His plundering expeditions added to his mother's savings,
1027 11| soldiers. He was warned to be expeditious, and before dawn was well
1028 6 | was a fit subject for the experiment, and was successfully blown
1029 7 | should be made on the spot by experts chosen by both English and
1030 3 | for the impossibility of expiation by the grandeur of their
1031 9 | and the letter went on to explain how the Suliots, the Armatolis,
1032 1 | and gratification. This explains his whole temperament; his
1033 7 | innocence had been proved in the explanations given to the Porte, the
1034 8 | only requires a spark to explode it." The Divan granted all
1035 3 | which ranked as a glorious exploit in the eyes of this savage
1036 6 | kill a man with a terrible explosion--explosive powder, in short.
1037 6 | with a terrible explosion--explosive powder, in short. Ali heard
1038 9 | upon him if he persisted in exposing himself like a private soldier.
1039 1 | tyranny. Vainly did reason expostulate that oppression could not
1040 11| as their father;" and he expressed sorrow for the fate to which
1041 7 | improvised a hymn which expresses all the grief of the exiles,
1042 11| respectfully kissed the beard, expressing aloud his wish that he himself
1043 3 | and that there must bean extensive conspiracy against Ali's
1044 2 | directed her attention to the exterior. Renouncing all the habit
1045 5 | now entrust the duty of exterminating the foes of my race. Avenge
1046 4 | enemies, both internal and external. A conspiracy, hatched between
1047 11| submission, should order Selim to extinguish the fatal match and to leave
1048 4 | my discredit, and thus to extort money from me. Of money
1049 3 | who, groaning under both extortion and rapine, vainly filled
1050 1 | and never relaxed their extortions. But in proportion as their
1051 8 | read by his agents. As an extra precaution, the guardians
1052 4 | complained greatly of his sons' extravagance, and regretted the money
1053 2 | height of their joy, and, exulting in their supposed victory,
1054 5 | his lips trembled, his eyebrows met in a terrible frown,
1055 11| Mehemet and Selim, whose long eyelashes and closed eyelids gave
1056 11| long eyelashes and closed eyelids gave them the appearance
1057 7 | profoundly stirred by a faint gleam of the dawn of liberty,
1058 2 | uttered a sound. As she lay, fainting with grief and terror, Ali
1059 2 | feet a comely youth, with fair hair and blue eyes, a persuasive
1060 3 | too happy to conclude a fairly satisfactory negotiation.
1061 7 | In the retirement of his fairy-like palace by the lake he could
1062 2 | care himself to spread his fame, relating his prowess to
1063 3 | whom ranked the Suliots famed through Albania for their
1064 3 | disciple of Mahomet when among fanatic Mussulmans, a materialist
1065 1 | his taste was not to the fancy of his neighbours, and brawls
1066 9 | scattered throughout the land, fanned the flame of revolt. Ismail
1067 10| fire, his figure assumed fantastic and weird shapes. The balls
1068 8 | prostrate slaves. He bade farewell to his wives, saying that
1069 11| and she was removed to the farm of Bouila, until the Supreme
1070 1 | conquered peoples. Like ignorant farmers, who exhaust fertile fields
1071 3 | pillaging the villages and farms belonging to his most powerful
1072 1 | certainly cannot be traced farther back than the end of the
1073 7 | sacrilege. But Ali Pacha fascinated the English agents, overwhelming
1074 10| supposed to be ill, weakened by fasting, and terrified into a renewal
1075 2 | the sacred hymn of the Fatahat was sung, and the murder
1076 1 | listen to nothing; and, as fatalistic when condemned to a state
1077 5 | massacre of their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons, and
1078 10| foresight was equally at fault with regard to the cowardice
1079 8 | myself, and deplore the faults which the difficulty of
1080 9 | messenger, ready to consider favourably any propositions likely
1081 9 | Greece had struck. Ali Pacha favoured the general demoralisation;
1082 4 | strove to answer. ~"What fearest thou, my son?" resumed Ali. "
1083 8 | desiring them to return fearlessly to their country, and I
1084 7 | to his ideas. One great feast-day, two gipsies devoted their
1085 5 | themselves as for a festival. Feasting and dancing, begun in Ali'
1086 4 | installation, Elmas began to feel strangely languid. Continual
1087 4 | besought him by his paternal feelings, for the sake of his son
1088 2 | doubted; then, one day, feigning illness, he sent excuses
1089 8 | Gilded Threshold of the Felicitous Gate of the Monarch who
1090 2 | number of years, the right of felling timber in a forest near
1091 7 | him at first to seek his fellow-exiles from Epirus, who were either
1092 7 | be hung. ~Ali hated his fellow-men. He would have liked to
1093 7 | Turks hailed from afar with, ferocious cries. The Parganiotes were
1094 3 | acquiring popularity. A fervent disciple of Mahomet when
1095 10| pressing his master's hand fervently to his lips. He never took
1096 5 | pacha, and with all the fervour which the utmost terror
1097 9 | groans in the midst of his festivities. Next came a carabine given
1098 2 | travellers his palace courtyard festooned with decapitated heads.
1099 9 | gondola should by night fetch one of them, to whom he
1100 9 | flotilla, dressed as if for a fete-day, passed slowly before the
1101 4 | to be taken, loaded with fetters and covered with a piece
1102 1 | the great financiers of feudal Europe. They had to keep
1103 9 | began to soothe the restless fever which was wasting Ali, and
1104 4 | lethargy, convulsive sneezing, feverish eyes, soon betokened a serious
1105 11| his watch, and taking his field-glass, surveyed by turns the camp,
1106 1 | neighbours, and brawls and fights recommenced in fine style.
1107 8 | the anger of Pharaoh--a figurative mode of warning him that
1108 7 | Louis XI before the leaden figures of saints which adorned
1109 9 | Charles XII of Sweden, and finally-- the much revered sabre
1110 2 | that he replenished his finances. He selected from his old
1111 7 | might be recovered. To these financial considerations Pacho Bey
1112 1 | state like that of the great financiers of feudal Europe. They had
1113 1 | and fights recommenced in fine style. Fortune did not always
1114 7 | seemed, like the warning finger of Destiny, to indicate
1115 11| and continually drew his fingers through his beard. He drank
1116 2 | necessity of establishing myself firmly in my birthplace. I had
1117 8 | the Thessalian taxation fivefold, had in doing so caused
1118 2 | tears, and Kamco added, fixing her distracted eyes upon
1119 9 | distance to wave a blue flag and call out the password.
1120 9 | throughout the land, fanned the flame of revolt. Ismail Pacha
1121 8 | xix., which says, "He doth flatter himself in vain. He shall
1122 3 | everywhere partisans by flattering the idea most in vogue.
1123 8 | name. ~There was no lack of flattery, even from literary persons.
1124 5 | flocks and herds, with fleeces dyed scarlet, and gilded
1125 4 | were boiled alive and their flesh then thrown to the dogs. ~
1126 2 | he leaped with joy, and flew to Delvino to seize the
1127 8 | prospect of booty and good pay, flocked to his standard in crowds. ~
1128 1 | masters, with one hand they flogged their slaves and with the
1129 3 | is the incarnate ideal of Florentine policy, the Italian prince
1130 9 | cannon shots, while the rebel flotilla, dressed as if for a fete-day,
1131 3 | desolate, while Thessaly flourished under his own administration,
1132 1 | felt the blood of warriors flow in their veins, and that
1133 7 | forbidden to take a fruit or a flower, the priests might not remove
1134 11| pavilion. Ali, perceiving blood flowing from a wound in his chest,
1135 9 | he could not help them. Foaming with passion, he threatened
1136 9 | winter in a ruined town, the foe would be driven to seek
1137 7 | of bringing back to the fold of the Church a man so notorious
1138 1 | stand-still; in that of the hill folk open war broke out. The
1139 8 | dignity; and he lamented the foolish ambition of his children,
1140 9 | mysterious stranger speared to forbid their passage and with a
1141 7 | wretched inhabitants; they were forbidden to take a fruit or a flower,
1142 7 | arrive in troops," says the forcible Turkish proverb, and a forerunner
1143 1 | exhaust fertile fields by forcing crops; they rapidly ruined
1144 4 | sentence of death was the foregone conclusion. They were then
1145 3 | single caste, although a foreign one to the capital, he,
1146 7 | forcible Turkish proverb, and a forerunner of disasters came to Ali
1147 9 | moderate his resentment nor to foresee the possibility of any change
1148 2 | over, Capelan, as Ali had foreseen, was summoned to give an
1149 10| Mistaken on this point, his foresight was equally at fault with
1150 2 | right of felling timber in a forest near Lake Reloda. Ali immediately
1151 2 | mountains, wandering through forests, scaling precipices, rolling
1152 2 | were destined to wean Ali forever from his former turbulent
1153 1 | in which his brothers, forewarned, had barricaded themselves.
1154 7 | followed at length by a formal refusal. ~Meanwhile, the
1155 4 | protected by this military formation, entered Parga in full view
1156 3 | sort of logical sequence formulated an inflexible plan of action.
1157 1 | command, seeing victory forsake them, fell back upon tyranny.
1158 9 | former general, who had forsaken him for Ismail, but who
1159 10| under the ruins of this fortification, the only spot remaining
1160 9 | lake. This labour lasted a fortnight, when, finally, Ali put
1161 3 | pacha already in possession. Fortunately for Ali, the latter was
1162 3 | quarrels of his faction in the forum. As for the pachas, they
1163 2 | but proofs of them were forwarded to the Divan by the very
1164 7 | the son of his children's foster-mother, he would have sent him
1165 3 | their great-grandfather, founder of the Tepel-Enian dynasty.
1166 9 | hereafter to the sultan. Fourthly, I demand amnesty and oblivion
1167 11| combat began. Mouktar's frail defences were soon in splinters.
1168 7 | Bourbons again reigned in France, and the Greeks built a
1169 10| for them to talk about. Frangistan (Christendom) shall henceforth
1170 10| proved decisive, and they frankly embraced the cause of the
1171 5 | another for shelter. Some ran frantically hither and thither in this
1172 2 | accepted the proposals, and the fratricidal bargain was concluded. The
1173 7 | accompanied by General Sir Frederic Adams, and landed at Parga
1174 1 | his ambition, he gave up free-booting, and established himself
1175 1 | his brothers. He became a freebooter, patrolling highroads and
1176 2 | itself that at length it was freed from its scourge. The whole
1177 8 | consider the best means of freeing themselves from a traitor,
1178 5 | All tongues were at their freest, all imaginations ran wild,
1179 8 | pointed in his honour, and a French-Greek Grammar was dedicated to
1180 10| the midst of a group of Frenchmen, whose curiosity had brought
1181 11| Constantinople to a state of frenzy, and triumphant shouts greeted
1182 7 | notorious for his crimes, the friar hastened to inform his superior,
1183 7 | encountered one of the itinerant friars of the great Servian convent,
1184 8 | order to be present at the Friday ceremonial prayer, and fired
1185 5 | their games, their early friendships, and pointing to the young
1186 7 | gold in the tassels and fringes of the sofas, and the silver
1187 10| incessant fire on the southern front of the castle of Litharitza,
1188 11| exhibited the brilliantly gilded frontispiece which decorated the firman. "
1189 5 | eyebrows met in a terrible frown, the muscles of his forehead
1190 3 | safe. Mothers cursed their fruitfulness, and women their beauty.
1191 4 | who a moment before was furiously raging and storming against
1192 7 | thread and hanging over the furnaces of Hell; which a Mussulman
1193 2 | of Argyro-Castron, named G. Malicovo, moved by compassion
1194 8 | in company: the venerable Gabriel, Archbishop of Janina, and
1195 5 | the Kardikiotes repaired gaily to the caravanserai, heaping
1196 2 | bordering provinces, instead of gaining for the pacha the praise
1197 6 | quarter-deck. He was a Greek of Galaxidi, Athanasius Macrys by name. ~
1198 7 | there constantly passed the gale spectre of Emineh, leading
1199 5 | of himself. He caused the galleries and halls of his castle
1200 8 | was lost. ~He ordered his galley to be immediately prepared,
1201 4 | Springing on his horse, he galloped towards Janina. His guards
1202 4 | discovered the abode of the gang, set out for the place attended
1203 1 | a prey to the political gangrene of which she is vainly trying
1204 11| seraglio, astonished the gaping multitude. The sultan himself,
1205 8 | sadness on the beautiful gardens where only yesterday he
1206 6 | from the French, who had garrisoned the citadel, and the French
1207 9 | disfigured themselves by gashes, hid themselves in caves,
1208 10| which I aspire." ~The envoys gazed at him with stupefaction,
1209 5 | least do not sink me to Gehenna with your curses!" ~"There
1210 9 | less, recently appointed general-in-chief, had gone over to the enemy
1211 6 | He sent messengers to his generals, ordering them to spare
1212 3 | her wishes. She spoke of, generosity, of mercy; he listened as
1213 10| encouraged them by voice and gesture. Observing the enemy's movements
1214 9 | titles of Vali of Epirus, and Ghazi, of Victorius. After this
1215 7 | would have sent him to the gibbet. He enforced his words by
1216 9 | roadside converted into gibbets. The murderers did not long
1217 9 | their mothers. And young girls, having disfigured themselves
1218 7 | which was discovered still girt with a belt containing Venetian
1219 11| the lake. Occasionally he glanced at his weapons, and then
1220 7 | profoundly stirred by a faint gleam of the dawn of liberty,
1221 7 | sought refuge in chambers glittering with gold, adorned with
1222 2 | capital, the Pacha of Delvino gloried in setting law and authority
1223 1 | their greed. They were never glutted, and never relaxed their
1224 9 | old in the temples of the gods, became the first object
1225 9 | recriminations, while his gondola should by night fetch one
1226 10| that these contemptible gossip-mongers should find listening at
1227 4 | her delight at the idea of governing in the name of her son,
1228 7 | which he promised him the governorship during the rest of his life.
1229 5 | to which he replied with gracious smiles. At the foot of the
1230 10| messengers, he saluted them graciously, observing that he did not
1231 6 | of a powder whereof three grains would suffice to kill a
1232 8 | honour, and a French-Greek Grammar was dedicated to him, and
1233 6 | was safe, at once sent his grand-daughter, the Princess of Aulis,
1234 8 | vast riches. His sons and grandsons were provided for by important
1235 1 | open war broke out. The grasping exactions of the tyrant
1236 7 | seven Ionian Isles; its grateful inhabitants were enjoying
1237 6 | Having vainly attempted to gratify it after his son's departure,
1238 2 | not only accused of the gravest offences, but proofs of
1239 7 | Instantly they rushed to the graveyards, tore open the tombs, and
1240 3 | income, inherited from their great-grandfather, founder of the Tepel-Enian
1241 4 | getting clear of one of the greatest difficulties in which he
1242 6 | escaped his rule, and which he greedily coveted. Agia, a small Christian
1243 11| frenzy, and triumphant shouts greeted the appearance of a document
1244 9 | a hail of bombs, shells, grenade's, and rockets carried devastation
1245 10| issued a storm of shells, grenades and cannon-balls. With a
1246 6 | citadel, and the French grenadiers descending rapidly from
1247 11| the latter, on arriving at Greveno, found the whole population
1248 8 | inhabitants preferred the griefs and dangers of emigration
1249 3 | restrain his violent passions. Grieved at first by the withdrawal
1250 8 | to those whom I have most grievously wounded. Thus I have long
1251 3 | inhabitants of the plains, who, groaning under both extortion and
1252 2 | he maltreated him with gross violence. It was only in
1253 5 | dread presence of Ali Pacha. Grouped in formidable masses around
1254 5 | time of our dissension to grow into men. I have lost the
1255 1 | liberty, and religiously guarded a state of disorder bequeathed
1256 8 | an extra precaution, the guardians of the passes were enjoined
1257 10| fortress of Litharitza. The Guegue Skipetars, who composed
1258 7 | inhabitants, whose intentions he guessed, made the slightest hostile
1259 5 | court by peasants under the guidance of their priests. Bishops,
1260 1 | of which he was both the guiding influence, and the end and
1261 7 | at two hundred thousand guineas. The sun shone in cloudless
1262 8 | representing, on a field gules, a lion, embracing three
1263 9 | destruction at command besides gunpowder. Life is nothing to me,
1264 6 | close by the palace, and on hailing the leading ship a speaking
1265 9 | previously, perhaps one half had escaped. But these had
1266 8 | the Suliotes allowed no half-and-half measures. Having once broken
1267 6 | she was pregnant. Then, half-avowals from her women, compelled
1268 5 | caused the galleries and halls of his castle by the lake
1269 3 | death of the Sultan Abdul Hamid, whose two sons, Mustapha
1270 4 | take refuge in a miserable hamlet, he inquired its name, and
1271 11| town and the neighbouring hamlets assembled to meet him, eager
1272 10| was to be feared that this handful of men might also become
1273 7 | guards. "Behold!" said he, handing Ali a letter, "Allah, who
1274 7 | have to deal. Were I to hang a criminal on yonder tree,
1275 4 | is dead, behold where he hangs at the door of our cottage!
1276 5 | to look as if nothing had happened, his agitation betrayed
1277 4 | will avenge myself whatever happens, and I shall die content
1278 5 | down their arms. In vain he harangued, flattered, or threatened
1279 3 | without rival among the hard drinkers of Albania, and
1280 2 | cultivated the germs of ambition, hardihood, and vengeance which already
1281 9 | supposed might be rendered harmless by these adjurations. Ali'
1282 3 | had formerly treated so harshly, and let them loose, provided
1283 9 | Bey in vain. Perceiving Hassan-Stamboul, colonel of the Imperial
1284 9 | attempted another route, hastening towards the road to Dgeleva,
1285 7 | saints which adorned his hat. He ordered a complete chemical
1286 4 | external. A conspiracy, hatched between the discontented
1287 8 | yourself as their leader. They hate you, it is true, but this
1288 7 | the castle of Parga was hauled down, and after a night
1289 11| in readiness, advanced, hauling up cannon, and a stubborn
1290 7 | ecclesiastics of Parga, who fell head-foremost into the trap. Seeing that
1291 2 | his powerful relative, who heaped benefits upon him, and did
1292 5 | gaily to the caravanserai, heaping blessings on the pacha,
1293 3 | caught a burning log from the hearth, struck his nephew in the
1294 10| followers cast terror into the hearts of nearly thirty thousand
1295 11| the castle, accompanied by hearty imprecations uttered by
1296 9 | he uttered; for, in the heat of battle, this extraordinary
1297 7 | had been perceived on the heights overlooking the town. Terrified
1298 11| seraglio, and the birth of an heir-presumptive to the sword of Othman--
1299 9 | henceforth my only children and heirs are those who defend my
1300 7 | hanging over the furnaces of Hell; which a Mussulman must
1301 8 | liberty. In an instant, all Hellas was up in arms. The Mohammedans
1302 10| condition of again bringing Hellos under his iron yoke. It
1303 8 | a refuge in Albania, and helped not a little to excite Ali'
1304 9 | army, which, instead of helping or protecting them, fell
1305 5 | Kardikiotes realised their utter helplessness, and saw that they, their
1306 2 | air, met him, kissed the hem of his robe, and, after
1307 8 | native of Bergamo, learned in heraldry, provided him with a coat
1308 | hereafter
1309 2 | ever, and lodged him, as heretofore, in his palace. Under the
1310 10| cried the old Homeric hero of Janina, leaping with
1311 4 | husbands and brothers. An heroic resolution spared them this
1312 11| length opened. He replied hesitatingly, that on leaving the citadel
1313 8 | to play, Ali, after long hesitation, decided on speaking, and,
1314 7 | remind him of his vow. Pacho Hey and his friend drew up a
1315 6 | was able to attend to his hideous family tragedy. He began
1316 3 | fly. Ali issued from his hiding place and sprang upon him,
1317 10| courage every day gains a higher value in my eyes." ~Furious
1318 1 | employments were sold to the highest bidder; pachas, beys, cadis,
1319 9 | value such a result far more highly than the glory of subduing
1320 1 | a freebooter, patrolling highroads and lanes, with his gun
1321 3 | of Provost Marshal of the Highway. As influential aids both
1322 7 | the midst of this drunken hilarity the Turk and the Englishman
1323 1 | what he had made on the hills. Vexations soured his temper
1324 5 | pacha; but no one dared hinder the venerable man, who walked
1325 7 | imaginary hidden treasure. Hollow trees were sounded, walls
1326 8 | yesterday he had received the homage of his prostrate slaves.
1327 10| yet alive! "cried the old Homeric hero of Janina, leaping
1328 10| permission to return to their homes. But this clemency appeared
1329 2 | obtain by violence. The honest and straightforward character
1330 5 | forward and threw back the hood of his black cloak. ~"O
1331 9 | besieged, having replied with hootings of contempt to the acclamations
1332 4 | light illuminating the dark horizon of Ali's life for a brief
1333 5 | dyed scarlet, and gilded horns, were seen on all the roads
1334 2 | Under the shadow of this hospitable roof, Ali skilfully prepared
1335 3 | by Ali with all apparent hospitality. The festival began on his
1336 8 | political counter-balance to the hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia,
1337 2 | palace, taking with him, as a hostage, Mustapha, son of Selim,
1338 8 | and abstained from all hostility. ~At the news of this great
1339 11| in peace amid celestial houris, the Skipetars, murmuring
1340 2 | and devoted herself to household duties, enabled him to collect
1341 3 | footsteps, kept also scandalous households, and seemed to dispute preeminence
1342 11| animal covered with purple housings, while Ali's shield, his
1343 10| mosque, cannon, mortars and howitzers, intending, he said, to
1344 9 | received by him with the most humiliating contempt, they resolved
1345 2 | reproaches, retired to hide his humiliation in the bosom of his old
1346 9 | approached crawling, like hunters who stalk a deer, already
1347 9 | called the Dervish, his chief huntsman presented him with his guns,
1348 3 | by the executioners and hurried to the gallows. In thus
1349 8 | As far back as 1808, the Hydriotes had offered to recognise
1350 11| presents to Kursheed, and a hyperbolical despatch to his army, Mahmoud
1351 11| beard. He drank coffee and iced water several times, incessantly
1352 3 | Mussulman; he is the incarnate ideal of Florentine policy, the
1353 7 | own children; but these idiotic Christians do not know how
1354 10| which never rose above idle display. As soon as these
1355 2 | please his mother, whose idol he was, and to whom in return
1356 11| dragged to the bazaar and sold ignominiously to Turcoman shepherds, after
1357 1 | with the troops of Bajazet Ilderim. But it is made certain
1358 10| himself, was supposed to be ill, weakened by fasting, and
1359 7 | pyre. He was received with ill-concealed indignation, and with assurances
1360 7 | could not, without appearing ill-disposed towards the pacha, offer
1361 7 | them. ~Ali, learning the ill-success of his latest stratagem,
1362 5 | favourite of the pacha's, whose illegitimate son he was supposed to be,
1363 4 | are only flashes of light illuminating the dark horizon of Ali'
1364 10| guns should be directed. Illumined by the flashes of fire,
1365 11| the island, had lost all illusions. His pulse beat violently,
1366 4 | Albania by the Governor of Illyria, a Tartar brought him news
1367 7 | then commanding in the Illyrian provinces, had for a time
1368 7 | either relics or sacred images. Church, ornaments, torches,
1369 7 | were hunting everywhere for imaginary hidden treasure. Hollow
1370 5 | were at their freest, all imaginations ran wild, all evil passions
1371 4 | astonishment; for no one could imagine that Ali would peacefully
1372 8 | indignation; and he disdained to imitate other states by raising
1373 1 | needed money. Unconsciously imitating the Roman Senate, the Turkish
1374 8 | pleasures in which he was immersed, he contented himself with
1375 4 | Its destruction seemed imminent, but instinct suddenly revealed
1376 7 | to distill the water of immortality, by the help of which he
1377 9 | a long time had enjoyed immunity from the guns of Janina,
1378 3 | Age had as yet in no way impaired Ali's strength and activity,
1379 3 | or merely accused, were impaled on spits, torn with redhot
1380 7 | Kardikiotes, to whom Ali imparted his present plan for the
1381 7 | enjoying the spectacle, and impartially applauding all well delivered
1382 2 | the capacity of Ali Pacha. Impatient of celebrity, he took good
1383 9 | warn them, endeavoured to impede Omar Pasha, hoping still
1384 3 | property daily ravaged, and impending ruin if hostilities continued,
1385 2 | was free to indulge in the impetuosity of his character. From his
1386 11| approach, Ali sprang up impetuously, his hand upon the pistols
1387 5 | of Ali. The latter, whose impiety by no means saved him from
1388 2 | truth, and public opinion implicated Chainitza in a crime of
1389 4 | and accustomed to obey her implicitly. She asked her brother's
1390 4 | and said: ~"O my lord! I implore thee to intercede with the
1391 1 | strength, and that peace imposed new and different labours
1392 3 | agreed to atone for the impossibility of expiation by the grandeur
1393 4 | The pelisse, carefully impregnated with smallpox germs taken
1394 8 | produced very different impressions on the Christian priests
1395 11| turns around the corpse, improvising the most eloquent funeral
1396 9 | less trouble than these imprudent chiefs had taken to estrange
1397 5 | entertainments; dirty and impudent jugglers invaded private
1398 11| he can despoil them with impunity; His Supreme Highness simply
1399 1 | country was mountainous and inaccessible. The pashas had great difficulty
1400 7 | compelled to wash in the Inachus blankets, sheets, and clothes
1401 5 | felt more ashamed of his inaction than of the reproaches which
1402 1 | constantly found their revenue inadequate. The most natural means
1403 3 | joined hands, and over the inanimate remains of their departed
1404 9 | proclaimed aloud the firman which inaugurated him as Pacha of Janina and
1405 3 | and indolent man, quite incapable of struggling against so
1406 3 | as a Mussulman; he is the incarnate ideal of Florentine policy,
1407 10| it, whence he kept up an incessant fire on the southern front
1408 9 | rebutting the accusation of incest with his daughter-in-law
1409 9 | Montenegrins and the Servians, inciting them to revolt, and organised
1410 7 | his great talents. But his inclination drove him at first to seek
1411 7 | iniquitous treaty, forgotten to include the ashes of those whom
1412 7 | Parga and its territory, including private property and church
1413 7 | He rejoiced in the public inconvenience, and one day having to go
1414 1 | men-at-arms, and consequently to incur heavy expenses; thus they
1415 1 | compensate him for the losses incurred through his brothers. He
1416 10| retain him, but without incurring any expense. He ascertained
1417 3 | pacha, unable to repel the incursions of these mountaineers, employed
1418 5 | take part in ridiculous and indecent dances, Ali apparently thinking
1419 9 | the castle by the lake, independently of the guns in position,
1420 11| coffin draped with a splendid Indian Cashmere shawl, on which
1421 10| despatched orders, and indicated to what points his guns
1422 1 | the disposal of any cause indiscriminately; and his sole aim was to
1423 3 | very first appearance of indisposition. As soon as symptoms of
1424 9 | him that their fate was indissolubly linked with his. Pacho Bey
1425 9 | province in Asia Minor. He was induced to write in this strain
1426 10| henceforth thought only of inducing their rebellious chief to
1427 2 | years of age was free to indulge in the impetuosity of his
1428 2 | remonstrances against the inefficacy and danger of such a resistance.
1429 1 | and character; some chose inertia, others violence. The inhabitants
1430 6 | fought bravely, they must inevitably have surrendered had they
1431 9 | there were mothers who, with infants at the breast, covered on
1432 9 | Chainitza had distributed infected garments among gipsies,
1433 7 | clothes steeped in bubonic infection, while the collectors were
1434 2 | Christian militia, which infested the plain. He laid violent
1435 10| sacrilegious intercourse with an infidel. She could only escape death
1436 4 | was told there was an old infirm woman of that name in great
1437 7 | age had laid the burden of infirmity upon him. His dreams were
1438 2 | fields. My imagination, inflamed by the counsels of her who
1439 3 | logical sequence formulated an inflexible plan of action. This man,
1440 9 | designs, if he could not inflict a terrible vengeance on
1441 3 | and at the sight of her infuriated husband, Emineh fell into
1442 3 | to and mixed with them an infusion of Orthodox Greeks, a skilful
1443 2 | increasing influence to ingratiate himself with the new pasha,
1444 10| services with the most sordid ingratitude. When he had first come
1445 2 | precipices, rolling in snow, inhaling the wind, defying the tempests,
1446 3 | that the injured should inherit the possessions of his would-be
1447 3 | fifteen hundred francs income, inherited from their great-grandfather,
1448 3 | terminated. As both were inimical to Ali, who could not hope
1449 3 | enemies who could really injure his power, and he knew that
1450 6 | to assail him with such injurious suspicions. ~When this letter
1451 3 | capital, he, by a singular innovation, added to and mixed with
1452 4 | pacha, who, not having been inoculated, died in a few days. ~The
1453 8 | under of satisfying the inordinate cupidity of the Ottoman
1454 10| necessaries, and he then began to inquire what caused the Seraskier
1455 1 | Inexorable conquerors and insatiable masters, with one hand they
1456 5 | placed over the gate an inscription in letters of gold, informing
1457 11| similar fate, Basilissa fell insensible into the arms of her attendants,
1458 11| numerous weapons, and various insignia, were borne on the saddles
1459 3 | too credulous protector, insinuated himself into his confidence,
1460 6 | seeing that it was useless to insist, and that his adversary
1461 1 | Nothing was superior to their insolence, nothing on a level with
1462 3 | merciless in vengeance, by turns insolent, humble, violent, or supple
1463 7 | Ismail to come on board and inspect his goods. But the latter,
1464 9 | had just made a tour of inspection in the Musache, had only
1465 9 | when, suddenly, with an inspiration born of despair, he ordered
1466 10| officer, who had succeeded in inspiring him with confidence. ~Whilst
1467 9 | Greeks having learnt the instability of his promises, remained
1468 7 | harvest were neglected; for instance, Ali distributed secretly
1469 2 | by the very man who had instigated them. There could be no
1470 2 | summoned him, Capelan, at the instigation of his son-in-law, did all
1471 4 | destruction seemed imminent, but instinct suddenly revealed to the
1472 1 | that the Osmanli warlike instincts recoiled upon themselves.
1473 1 | Janissaries against the institution of the regular militia decreed
1474 9 | appointed Pacha, and who was instructed to proceed along the western
1475 3 | finish, and finding his hands insufficient, caught a burning log from
1476 7 | his palace had formerly insulted the public misery, he hastened
1477 10| was far beyond the united intellect of the Divan, which never
1478 3 | was at the height of his intellectual development: experience
1479 4 | already given too much, and I intend this time to escape without
1480 8 | who lost no opportunity of interceding in their favour. The sultan,
1481 10| to her riches and to the intercession of her nephew, Djiladin
1482 10| the cadi of sacrilegious intercourse with an infidel. She could
1483 3 | Porte, so long as it did not interfere with his private authority,
1484 3 | and as his heart never interfered with the deductions of his
1485 2 | Then, at ease about the interior of her family, she directed
1486 8 | established himself as an intermediary for all those who came to
1487 3 | of the country, the women interposed between the combatants,
1488 9 | archbishops, in which were interred reliquaries adorned with
1489 8 | by the course of events. Interrogate my actions, they will speak
1490 7 | rich and poor alike, were interrogated, beaten, and compelled to
1491 3 | terror, and her women hastily intervened and carried her away. For
1492 3 | the days of his youth been intimate with Kurd Pacha, Ali had
1493 5 | streets, and their chiefs, intimidated by the general misery and
1494 9 | hunger. ~The Albanians, intoxicated with plunder and debauchery,
1495 2 | any use. As obstinate as intractable, he set at defiance all
1496 9 | to press on to the second intrenchment, promising that in an hour,
1497 10| gentle as his heart was intrepid, and his special duty was
1498 9 | person of the valour and intrepidity of the Lion of Tepelen should
1499 8 | against the rebel pacha. He introduced into the Greek translation
1500 7 | tried to blow up Janina by introducing mice with tinder fastened
1501 5 | once, as if by a sudden inundation, the very scum of the earth
1502 6 | consolation a chance of invading the territory of Parga,
1503 7 | tortures had to be constantly invented. Now it was a servant, guilty
1504 4 | themselves carrying out their inventions. ~There were some who, having
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