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1505 4 | Mahmoud II, who was next invested with the scimitar of Othman,
1506 4 | inquired the result of their investigation. He was answered by a burst
1507 3 | Tepel-Enian dynasty. But further investigations disclosed that even this
1508 9 | promises, remained deaf to his invitations. At the same time he sent
1509 9 | their discontent, wrote inviting them to return to him, and
1510 9 | his pardon, I fear not to invoke his severity towards those
1511 10| fell at his feet, uttering involuntary cries of terror. He smiled
1512 1 | daughter named Chainitza. ~Ire spite of his intentions
1513 4 | tomb, covered with white iris and sheltered by a wild
1514 10| bringing Hellos under his iron yoke. It is possible that
1515 11| and steward loaded with irons. Only sixty thousand purses (
1516 4 | conduct had been otherwise irreproachable. But her tears and pleadings
1517 3 | Skipetars of Toxid, all Islamites, and gave the command to
1518 8 | O bishops and priests of Issa the prophet! bless the arms
1519 6 | no better than his army. Issuing from the Gulf of Ambracia,
1520 9 | a detachment of French, Italians, and Swiss, rushed through
1521 7 | he encountered one of the itinerant friars of the great Servian
1522 11| body with many blows of a jagged cutlass. Thus ended the
1523 4 | Wallachian, named Nicholas Janco, took the opportunity to
1524 7 | Empire. Soon there arrived at Janine Sir John Cartwright, the
1525 9 | information that he intended, January 26, to attack the camp of
1526 4 | danger, on account of the jealousy of his terrible rival. He
1527 9 | Djezzar, the Pacha of St. Jean-d'Arc, who amused himself
1528 7 | manifestation of despair, even as Jeremiah by the fall of Jerusalem,
1529 7 | Jeremiah by the fall of Jerusalem, improvised a hymn which
1530 9 | brought up in the faith of Jesus. ~Having thus softened the
1531 7 | passers-by. Behind stood a Jew from Janina, charged with
1532 7 | there arrived at Janine Sir John Cartwright, the English
1533 7 | of Paradise. He ceased to joke about Eblis, the Prince
1534 7 | prerogative. To avoid being jolted, he simply took up the pavement
1535 3 | the Divan, which usually judged only after the event, seeing
1536 1 | chief of a warlike band. Judging that the moment for vengeance
1537 3 | an apology attested by a judicial declaration by the cadi,
1538 5 | entertainments; dirty and impudent jugglers invaded private houses,
1539 8 | close until the new moon of July. Had Ali put himself boldly
1540 2 | up, he broke the door or jumped out of the window; if they
1541 2 | that earned by the son of Jupiter and Maia. When he grew to
1542 4 | coiners who dwelt within his jurisdiction. Ali, delighted to, prove
1543 2 | them, it is yours. Success justifies everything, and everything
1544 8 | your rights, and to rule justly the brave nation associated
1545 4 | immediately, sent to Janina a "kapidgi- bachi," or plenipotentiary,
1546 7 | important communication. As kapidgi-bachis are frequently bearers of
1547 2 | no peace till Kormovo and Kardikil destroyed by thy scimitar,
1548 11| with those of the Sagaris. Katherin, Veli's other wife, and
1549 1 | doors, and I retaliate by keeping them at home for ever." ~
1550 9 | Napoleon, and shot with it Kekriman, Bey of Sponga, whom he
1551 9 | of Kiapha, which is the key of the Selleide. ~The Seraskier
1552 2 | whose anger he dared not kindle. Not only did he keep the
1553 4 | in terror. Ali raised her kindly. ~"Dost thou not know me?"
1554 8 | frequently saluted him as King, a title which he affected
1555 1 | who at his pleasure made kings and destroyed kingdoms,
1556 4 | mingled innocence and terror, kissing his hands, which she bathed
1557 8 | disorders, and to induce the Klephotes to turn their arms against
1558 3 | chorus in the Pyrrhic and Klephtic dances, the ceremonials
1559 9 | the warlike songs of the Klephts of Roumelia. ~Almost simultaneously,
1560 11| harem, heard his sentence kneeling. The wretch who had, in
1561 11| He vainly embraced the knees of his executioners, imploring
1562 3 | to Emineh's apartment; he knocked and called, but being refused
1563 2 | There he acquired complete knowledge of the details of the pachalik
1564 1 | province, among others to Kourd Pacha, Vizier of Serat,
1565 11| troop of janissaries from Koutaieh, ordered to be in readiness,
1566 9 | the much revered sabre of Krim-Guerai. The signal was given; the
1567 10| to place themselves under Kursheeds' standard, and enormous
1568 9 | ordered the Mirdite prince, Kyr Lekos, to advance with an
1569 9 | that he appeared among his labourers. Often he sat on the bastions
1570 1 | where the manners of ancient Laconia prevailed; the deeds of
1571 4 | at the same time fifteen ladies belonging to the best Christian
1572 7 | learnt what this unfortunate lady had already endured on his
1573 11| convert a dragon into a lamb." And in fact, at sight
1574 4 | entertainment, until at length a lance was run through his body
1575 11| their eyes fixed on the landing-place. ~The kiosk which he occupied
1576 1 | patrolling highroads and lanes, with his gun on his shoulder
1577 3 | changed both opinions and language when dealing with subordinates
1578 4 | began to feel strangely languid. Continual lethargy, convulsive
1579 10| his eyes off Ali, and the lantern, near which a match was
1580 9 | his head on Basilissa's lap, when he was informed that
1581 8 | public expense, and was larger and more magnificent than
1582 8 | certain Abdi Effendi of Larissa, one of the richest nobles
1583 7 | learning the ill-success of his latest stratagem, accused the Nazir
1584 8 | nor any Skipetar of the Latin communion would bear arms
1585 5 | banner. ~"To you, brave Latins," he cried, "I will now
1586 7 | whilst I smoke my pipe and laugh at your condition." ~He
1587 8 | caused the Grand Mufti to launch the thunder of excommunication
1588 6 | his sons' families, no- law-giver having hitherto contemplated
1589 2 | gradually enlisted all the lawless and adventurous men in Toscaria.
1590 7 | did Louis XI before the leaden figures of saints which
1591 8 | Bohemian dancers, bear leaders, and a crowd of prostitutes. ~
1592 1 | their sanjaks; sometimes in league with these against the sultan;
1593 2 | apoplexy. But the truth soon leaked out from the lying shrouds
1594 10| appeared to be giving way. Leaning on a long Malacca cane,
1595 2 | the firman of execution he leaped with joy, and flew to Delvino
1596 10| Homeric hero of Janina, leaping with joy; and his words,
1597 11| Constantinople, sewn up in a leather sack, was flung into the
1598 7 | the ground with a broken leg. Ali gave them each forty
1599 4 | considered how he could legally escape from this predicament.
1600 2 | the mountain. The popular legend, always thirsting for the
1601 9 | and brought up to form a legion drilled in European fashion;
1602 3 | Medina, at the expense of legitimately acquired property duly sold
1603 7 | friendship of the pacha, whose leisure he had often amused by stories
1604 3 | been his teacher, and the lesson of no single event had been
1605 4 | strangely languid. Continual lethargy, convulsive sneezing, feverish
1606 8 | Already he had a consul at Leucadia accepted by the English,
1607 8 | adventurers with whom the Levant swarms, outlaws from every
1608 1 | brave man, and determined to levy exactions on others to compensate
1609 2 | on the condition of his levying a body of four thousand
1610 4 | to weary. The scandalous libertinism of both father and sons
1611 5 | journey, he stopped at Libokhovo, where his sister had resided
1612 9 | burnt. Churches, mosques, libraries, bazaars, houses, all were
1613 2 | to revenge themselves by licentiousness rather than by murder. Shut
1614 9 | being driven by the infamous lies of a former servant, called
1615 7 | Commissioner, addressed to Lieutenant-Colonel de Bosset, undeceived them,
1616 2 | her character. During the lifetime of her husband, whom she
1617 11| Hassan in the thigh. Swift as lightning, a second killed the keeper
1618 2 | If Kamco had so strong a liking for Ali, it was because
1619 1 | to trespass over pasture limits. This was the normal and
1620 9 | their fate was indissolubly linked with his. Pacho Bey having
1621 8 | name was struck out of the list of viziers. Pacho Bey was
1622 1 | cowered down in magnificent listlessness, leaving the whole burden
1623 8 | lack of flattery, even from literary persons. At Vienna a poem
1624 9 | castle of the lake and from Lithoritza, announced that the besieged
1625 7 | heir to his subjects. A few livid and emaciated spectres were
1626 9 | prepared to burst it open, when lo! it opened of itself, and
1627 1 | ruins. Without mentioning local revolts which produced only
1628 10| had scarcely entered the lodging assigned to him, when he
1629 3 | insufficient, caught a burning log from the hearth, struck
1630 8 | replied only by raising looks of despair to Heaven, others
1631 2 | men who had won them by lot the previous morning. This
1632 7 | knelt before it, as did Louis XI before the leaden figures
1633 10| mosque, in the quarter of Loutcha. This building, spared by
1634 7 | pomegranates and citrons. But the lovely country might have been
1635 10| death by the apostasy of her lover; if he refused to deny his
1636 3 | faith in God, despising men, loving and thinking only of himself,
1637 2 | which he found himself, as a loyal subject and faithful Mussulman,
1638 7 | whither these evidences of loyalty were to be brought. ~During
1639 7 | the others. Again Ismail's lucky star saved him from the
1640 3 | with plausible words and lulled to sleep the watchfulness
1641 8 | the lake; in short, Ali's luxury was on a level with his
1642 1 | soldier were sung on the lyre, and the skilful robber
1643 1 | the learned researches of M. de Pouqueville that he
1644 9 | paper contained a truly Macchiavellian letter from Ali, which began
1645 1 | the other from the ancient Macedonians, not long since masters
1646 3 | failure. He simply turned his machinations against his other enemy,
1647 6 | just as a similar infernal machine was placed in his hands
1648 5 | incessantly, stopped as if by magic, and her women, who were
1649 7 | superstition. He was surrounded by magicians and soothsayers; he consulted
1650 7 | the owners. One of these magistrates, accused of having hidden
1651 4 | resignation, and applauded his magnanimity, when he provided his sister
1652 7 | beside him. Through the magnificence which surrounded him there
1653 1 | for their bread. Whether Mahomedans or Christians, the Albanians
1654 7 | by this treaty all become Mahommedan property. The English had
1655 4 | the sultan and of all good Mahommedans. May Allah grant me the
1656 2 | by the son of Jupiter and Maia. When he grew to manhood,
1657 4 | Janina in company with the maiden, who repaid his mercy with
1658 3 | seeking for young men and maidens remarkable for their beauty,
1659 9 | the Greek races of the mainland and those of the Archipelago
1660 2 | up arms, under pretext of maintaining the rights of her children.
1661 7 | annuity of two pounds of maize daily, and considering this
1662 2 | possibly in sympathy with the majesty of nature, he felt aroused
1663 10| giving way. Leaning on a long Malacca cane, he repaired at early
1664 2 | Argyro-Castron, named G. Malicovo, moved by compassion for
1665 2 | from the consequences, he maltreated him with gross violence.
1666 9 | French, the conqueror of the Mamelukes, was only rewarded for these
1667 1 | most difficult provinces to manage. Its inhabitants were poor,
1668 2 | death, that he became more manageable; he even consented to learn
1669 9 | with a resistance so well managed, that he was able to conceal
1670 3 | saw increasing under his management, he maintained a large body
1671 11| had worn in battle. The mane of his charger was cut off,
1672 2 | and Maia. When he grew to manhood, he extended his operations.
1673 7 | inspired by this sublime manifestation of despair, even as Jeremiah
1674 2 | From his early youth he had manifested a mettle and activity rare
1675 6 | the ships, and a barque manned by sailors from Paxos pursued
1676 4 | ignorant mountaineers the one manoeuvre which might save them. They
1677 5 | it, covered it with his mantle, and signed to the pacha
1678 9 | enormous gun, of Versailles manufacture, formerly presented by the
1679 9 | Orthodox Mohammedans. A Marabout then cast a stone towards
1680 5 | frightful journey fresh marauders fell on the wretched victims,
1681 7 | that the pacha's army was marching to take possession of the
1682 10| This state of things lasted mare than three weeks, when it
1683 6 | without ceremony in the market-place. The sixth was the messenger
1684 7 | left. Each was silently marking the door of the dwelling
1685 7 | artillery which General Marmont, then commanding in the
1686 3 | different course. Realising the Marquis de Sade as his father had
1687 3 | amidst the songs of the marriage-feast. ~The daughter of Chainitza,
1688 2 | the country, and being of marriageable age, he sought and formed
1689 3 | order to be able later to marry Ali Pacha, whom she had
1690 1 | before his time Charles Martel had saved it on the plains
1691 8 | execution of the Christian martyr; the holy bishop of Velas,
1692 2 | always thirsting for the marvellous in the adventures of heroes,
1693 7 | noble presence and with masculine firmness, Pacho Bey possessed
1694 4 | enough to throw off the mask, and yet could not deny
1695 2 | the province of Delvino. Masking his ambitious designs under
1696 10| fortified enclosure, of solid masonry, bristling with cannon,
1697 9 | estrange them. He gave a mass of special information on
1698 5 | Pacha. Grouped in formidable masses around him stood several
1699 9 | never ceased to produce a mast unfavourable impression
1700 3 | among fanatic Mussulmans, a materialist with the Bektagis who professed
1701 11| The body, covered with matting, was laid in a grave beside
1702 5 | hair and to stuff with it a mattress on which she lay. She then
1703 2 | which contain by day the mattresses spread by night on the floor
1704 10| his last resort, a kind of mausoleum; and he did not seem distressed
1705 10| message to Kursheed; "thou mayest take thy dead and bury them;
1706 3 | evening after a plentiful meal. Gifted with the hereditary
1707 6 | escape from that side, Ali meaning to spare neither the garrison
1708 | meantime
1709 5 | Enormous spits, loaded with meat, smoked before huge braziers,
1710 5 | pacha to seat himself. Ali mechanically obeyed, and waited in solemn
1711 7 | people, such as servants, mechanics, and soldiers, in order
1712 3 | gave him poison instead of medicine on the very first appearance
1713 3 | offerings be made at the tomb of Medina, at the expense of legitimately
1714 7 | shoulders in a boiler full of melted lead and boiling oil. Old
1715 1 | retinue of servants and men-at-arms, and consequently to incur
1716 2 | the prey which I devoured mentally. I dreamt of nothing else
1717 9 | their gold, jewels, and merchandise, even as did the Greeks
1718 4 | one of the richest Greek merchants, and noted for wit and beauty.
1719 2 | legal, in the name of the merciful and compassionate God, Lord
1720 9 | favour, and would even deal mercifully with Ali, who, with his
1721 3 | inexorable in execution, merciless in vengeance, by turns insolent,
1722 9 | Ali sabred the fugitives mercilessly, but fear carried them away,
1723 10| arrogance and submission only merited indignation, but it suited
1724 11| splinters. The venerable Metche-Bono, father of Elmas Bey, faithful
1725 1 | resistance, different in method, similar in result. In the
1726 2 | But he soon tired of the methodical life he was obliged to lead,
1727 9 | unbridled soldiery. The Metropolitan church, where Greeks and
1728 2 | youth he had manifested a mettle and activity rare in young
1729 10| chiefs of the garrison, Metzo-Abbas by name, who obtained pardon
1730 7 | up Janina by introducing mice with tinder fastened to
1731 2 | him. Ali got off with a mild captivity in the palace
1732 11| sultan does not condescend to mince matters with his slaves,
1733 10| danger, imagined deadly mines ready to be fired everywhere,
1734 3 | Macchiavelli, he delighted in mingling together debauchery and
1735 8 | cupidity of the Ottoman ministry, which incessantly made
1736 3 | who had only escaped by a miracle, and that the assassin was
1737 9 | had time to spike. This misadventure, for they had hoped to turn
1738 6 | who succeeded in causing a miscarriage, and who, his work done,
1739 2 | equal elements of good and mischief. If Emineh, his wife, was
1740 3 | When all was settled, the miscreant set out for Berat, and was
1741 3 | authority from within, he missed no opportunity of extending
1742 5 | looked around with doubt and mistrust. Fear was nearly taking
1743 10| he received appeared to mitigate his trouble. Some days later,
1744 8 | been more becoming than the mitre. ~Ashamed of the part he
1745 10| Chapter 10~ ~ This mixture of arrogance and submission
1746 10| Skipetars who could cross the moat betook themselves to Kursheed'
1747 2 | amuse the sultan and the mob, and some money to the ministers
1748 7 | faithful to the poetical and mocking genius of them ancestors,
1749 2 | Emineh, his wife, was a model of virtue, his father-in-law,
1750 9 | had neither known how to moderate his resentment nor to foresee
1751 7 | odious transactions which modern history has been compelled
1752 10| influence of a sort of polite modesty these were at least anxious
1753 9 | are not accepted without modifications, I am prepared to defend
1754 1 | home for ever." ~In a few moments he was his father's sole
1755 8 | the Felicitous Gate of the Monarch who dispenses crowns to
1756 2 | pacha consented to go to Monastir, where he had been summoned
1757 9 | succeeded by that of Arta of Mongliana, where was situated Ali'
1758 7 | of the discretion of the monks, after a few days he explained
1759 3 | carried debauchery to a monstrous extent, and as if his palaces
1760 9 | he sent messengers to the Montenegrins and the Servians, inciting
1761 2 | the unexplored caves of Montenegro. ~When the struggle was
1762 8 | not close until the new moon of July. Had Ali put himself
1763 4 | wished to restore decent morality, arrested at the same time
1764 9 | Ottoman camp at dead of night. Morco Botzaris remained with three
1765 8 | of the Archipelago. The Moreans bore him no enmity until
1766 | Moreover
1767 10| cup not been filled with mortification and insult. ~Eluding the
1768 8 | him that only the rod of Moses could save him from the
1769 9 | of which he divined the motive only too well, and though
1770 1 | nature of the country was mountainous and inaccessible. The pashas
1771 5 | pleasure. Disorderly bands of mountebanks from the depths of Roumelia
1772 11| salutes, acted as chief mourner, surrounded by weeping mourners,
1773 11| mourner, surrounded by weeping mourners, who made the ruins of Janina
1774 9 | your mercy. Let one of you move a step without my permission,
1775 10| gesture. Observing the enemy's movements by the help of a telescope,
1776 1 | tilled their fields, or mowed their neighbours', carrying
1777 4 | on every pretext. Phocis, Mtolia, Acarnania, were by turns
1778 7 | could hardly get through the mud. He rejoiced in the public
1779 9 | on a richly caparisoned mule and repeating the curse
1780 1 | part of the Continent; like mummies which preserve but the semblance
1781 4 | the pacha, extending his murderous hand to be kissed as soon
1782 5 | magnificently." ~A confused murmur rose from the ranks. Ali
1783 11| celestial houris, the Skipetars, murmuring like the waves of the sea
1784 9 | tour of inspection in the Musache, had only noticed favourable
1785 5 | in a terrible frown, the muscles of his forehead contracted
1786 5 | with firing, songs, cries, music, and the roaring of wild
1787 5 | back by either scimitars or muskets. It was a terrible scene
1788 9 | whole corps of artillery mutinied. In order to save appearances,
1789 2 | goat to be pinioned and muzzled, and fastened under the
1790 10| eyes." ~Furious at this mystification, the Suliots retired to
1791 7 | There was no end to the mystifications which it amused the pacha
1792 | namely
1793 1 | history we are about to narrate, Ali Tepeleni, Pacha of
1794 7 | Al-Sirat, that awful bridge, narrow as a spider's thread and
1795 2 | nothing in Tepelen but the natal air from which I was to
1796 4 | hands, and chanting their national songs, moved in a solemn
1797 1 | when conquest failed. It naturally therefore came to pass when
1798 9 | to the commander of the naval forces, by whom he was well
1799 7 | intact, and that the Greek navy, beginning to be formidable,
1800 10| He ascertained that the Neapolitan was passionately in love
1801 10| anything but procuring various necessaries, and he then began to inquire
1802 7 | Koran was hung about his neck as a defence against the
1803 1 | this, the Sublime Porte needed money. Unconsciously imitating
1804 1 | But in proportion as their needs increased on the one hand,
1805 3 | conclude a fairly satisfactory negotiation. A family alliance was arranged,
1806 2 | service of the Pacha of Negropont. But he soon tired of the
1807 9 | neither son would leave the neighbourhood of so excellent a father.
1808 2 | tempests, breathing out his nervous energy through every pore.
1809 10| He had begun to form a net of intrigue to cause himself
1810 10| greeting curious persons and new-comers after a fashion of his own.
1811 4 | Janina. A Wallachian, named Nicholas Janco, took the opportunity
1812 4 | woman named Euphrosyne, a niece of the archbishop, married
1813 10| concluded that his end drew nigh. ~During the two next nights
1814 6 | conduct of his sons' families, no- law-giver having hitherto
1815 3 | Bey of Clerisoura. This nobleman, attached to Ibrahim Pacha
1816 9 | edge of the lake. ~This noisy rhodomontade did not prevent
1817 8 | Prince of Greece, under the nominal suzerainty of the sultan;
1818 2 | devoted to the sultan, was nominated Pacha of Delvino in place
1819 3 | the news of Ali Pacha's nomination, and it was unanimously
1820 11| acclamations. ~It was then noon. Ali, in the island, had
1821 1 | pasture limits. This was the normal and regular life of the
1822 1 | the world; crossed with Norman adventurers brought eastwards
1823 8 | two kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. But his ambition was not
1824 3 | woman in their midst whose nose and ears he had caused to
1825 4 | some who, having had their noses and ears cut off, were compelled
1826 4 | appeared. "I shall take no notice of your anger, but in future
1827 7 | fold of the Church a man so notorious for his crimes, the friar
1828 4 | he asked if a woman named Nouza dwelt in the village, and
1829 3 | arrival towards the end of November 1791, and had already continued
1830 2 | education. Scarcely out of the nursery, he spent his time in climbing
1831 3 | character, which like a desert oasis, affords a rest to eyes
1832 2 | rising in blood. ~Instead of obeying the orders of the Divan
1833 10| wishing to anticipate his objections, added that the object of
1834 9 | Fourthly, I demand amnesty and oblivion of the past for all those
1835 2 | ever to draw him out of obscurity. He went every morning to
1836 10| fate to perform the funeral obsequies of the guilty race of Tepelen. ~
1837 3 | which he never transgressed. Obsequious towards the Sublime Porte,
1838 7 | himself up to the strictest observances of the Mohammedan religion.
1839 9 | threatened to triumph over all obstacles. Ali immediately ordered
1840 2 | nothing was of, any use. As obstinate as intractable, he set at
1841 2 | sought and found the means to obviate it. He succeeded in making
1842 8 | was not yet satisfied. The occupation of Parga did not crown his
1843 7 | next day. ~An unexpected occurrence seemed, like the warning
1844 10| nephew, Djiladin Pacha of Ochcrida, who was reserved by fate
1845 9 | supplied with munitions of war Ochrida, Avlone, Cannia, Berat,
1846 9 | procure any before the end of October, by which time the rains
1847 8 | Greeks sought refuge at Odessa, and the great Turkish families
1848 7 | vengeance, a Christian from OEtolia, Paleopoulo by name. This
1849 7 | refusal. ~Meanwhile, the old OEtolian, Paleopoulo, died, having
1850 5 | watching the development of the off-spring of my neighbours and the
1851 2 | only accused of the gravest offences, but proofs of them were
1852 10| whom Ali seemed anxious to offend as much as possible, by
1853 9 | how they had succeeded in offending the Armatolis, and especially
1854 3 | finally concluded a treaty offensive and defensive. This fresh
1855 9 | confidence. With this object I offer--First, to pay the expenses
1856 3 | sent as proxy to Mecca, or offerings be made at the tomb of Medina,
1857 2 | the palace, to prepare the official account of the execution
1858 7 | great fortunes of Government officials to be absorbed on their
1859 9 | victory gained by Passevend Oglon, Pacha of Widdin, of quite
1860 4 | this terrible vizier." ~"Oh no, no! you are good, you
1861 7 | melted lead and boiling oil. Old men, women, children,
1862 7 | Destiny, to indicate an evil omen for the pacha's future. "
1863 7 | spectre of Emineh, leading onwards a vast procession of mournful
1864 11| raised upon pillars, like the open-air theatres constructed for
1865 3 | belonging to his most powerful opponents. His tactics succeeded,
1866 2 | found himself vigorously opposed, lost part of his force,
1867 9 | Subdued by this unaccustomed opposition, Ali allowed himself to
1868 3 | the few troops he had in oppressing the inhabitants of the plains,
1869 1 | escape at any cost from oppressors whom they could neither
1870 7 | balmy with the scent of orange trees, of pomegranates and
1871 6 | action, had brought him oranges gathered in the orchards
1872 1 | on better terms with the orbit of their existence, and
1873 6 | oranges gathered in the orchards of Parga. Ali gave him a
1874 11| the strains of a lively orchestra, while innocent victims
1875 9 | word to Ali to advance. His orderly hastened back, and the prince
1876 1 | Each tribe had its military organisation, each family its fortified
1877 1 | Veli, was a slave. His origin was no legal bar to his
1878 7 | or sacred images. Church, ornaments, torches, tapers, pyxes,
1879 1 | The haughty descendants of Ortogrul, who considered themselves
1880 9 | quarrel arose between them, ostensibly on account of this dispute,
1881 4 | invested with the scimitar of Othman, came to the throne in troublous
1882 11| heir-presumptive to the sword of Othman--which news was announced
1883 9 | encountered the outposts of the Otto man army, which, instead
1884 1 | were merely the natural outcome of his character confronted
1885 7 | palm-leaf mat placed. at the outer gate of his ruined palace,
1886 10| that as it was natural an outlawed man should be on his guard,
1887 8 | whom the Levant swarms, outlaws from every country, had
1888 4 | when the brothers, alike outraged by their father, would plot
1889 5 | wine-steeped wings of debauchery outspread themselves over the feast.
1890 7 | the Imperial Treasury. By overhauling the accounts of his administration,
1891 7 | bravado. If, by chance, he overheard some blind singer chanting
1892 9 | of Ibrahim-Aga-Stamboul. Overjoyed, he ordered them to press
1893 7 | perceived on the heights overlooking the town. Terrified and
1894 7 | in view, Ali's emissaries overran the villages of Thessaly,
1895 10| deliver their hostages, overrun the ramparts, count the
1896 3 | either to purchase or to overthrow. The army sent against them,
1897 2 | entirely his mother's work. "I owe everything to my mother,"
1898 7 | citadel was taken at night, owing to the treachery of a woman
1899 4 | the vast territory which owned his sway, he again invaded
1900 7 | disappeared along with the owners. One of these magistrates,
1901 5 | ordinary forms of etiquette, he paced slowly through the various
1902 7 | destroyed by a cannon placed six paces off, but only loaded with
1903 9 | likely to lead to a prompt pacification, and would value such a
1904 3 | whom the court of Berat was packed, and presented himself at
1905 6 | cover to his young wife. The packet was seized, and a careful
1906 7 | the Nazir of conniving at Paeho Bey's escape. But the latter
1907 2 | have saved much time and pains. ~"I was in the habit of
1908 9 | twenty men, threw down the palisades, and then ascending Mount
1909 7 | covered with rags, on a shabby palm-leaf mat placed. at the outer
1910 6 | his fleet doubling Cape Pancrator and re-entering the Ambracian
1911 9 | others, seized with the pangs of travail in the midst
1912 9 | Cleisoura, Premiti, the port of Panormus, Santi-Quaranta, Buthrotum,
1913 3 | Bektagis who professed a rude pantheism, a Christian among the Greeks,
1914 4 | hither bringing certain papers signed with my seal, intending
1915 7 | to arrive at the gate of Paradise. He ceased to joke about
1916 9 | authority was no longer paramount, and he began to doubt the
1917 9 | Parga, Prevesa, Sderli, Paramythia, Arta, the post of the Five
1918 1 | tumbling to pieces, and getting parcelled out amongst bold adventurers
1919 2 | mercy in the name of his parents, excusing himself on account
1920 5 | treaty was signed by both parties, and solemnly sworn to on
1921 5 | embraced each other as if parting for ever, and then the men,
1922 11| Veli Aga whilst the escort partook of refreshment and changed
1923 7 | for the donations of the passers-by. Behind stood a Jew from
1924 9 | brilliant victory gained by Passevend Oglon, Pacha of Widdin,
1925 1 | Saint-Jean-d'Acre, or that of Passevend-Oglou Pacha, who planted himself
1926 1 | opportunity to trespass over pasture limits. This was the normal
1927 1 | should be noted, the crop; or pastured their, flocks, watching
1928 2 | could to lead him into the paths of probity. He appeared
1929 7 | Cartwright, the English Consul at Patras, to arrange for the sale
1930 2 | he who cannot defend his patrimony richly deserves to lose
1931 2 | the veil of religion and patriotism, he lamented, in his denunciatory
1932 1 | He became a freebooter, patrolling highroads and lanes, with
1933 3 | devotion of Murad to his patron, over whom he had great
1934 7 | jolted, he simply took up the pavement in Janina and the neighbouring
1935 8 | with new buildings; elegant pavilions rose on the shores of the
1936 6 | barque manned by sailors from Paxos pursued them, a shot from
1937 9 | only entered Epirus as a peace-maker. Kursheed's emissaries had
1938 4 | could imagine that Ali would peacefully renounce so important a
1939 7 | women and children picked up pebbles which they hid in their
1940 8 | those of his clients, should penetrate to the ears of the sultan;
1941 2 | clear the valley of the Peneus of a multitude of Christian
1942 8 | for war, would not spend a penny in order to wage it; and
1943 4 | pasha, who assured her a pension of fifteen hundred francs
1944 3 | advanced money, but he also pensioned the most influential ministers.
1945 7 | all in receipt of large pensions from the man at whom they
1946 1 | their support on conquered peoples. Like ignorant farmers,
1947 11| so as to be the first to perceive any who might wish to enter.
1948 7 | tone of the letter was in perfect accordance with the former
1949 7 | successfully." ~His conduct perfectly corresponded to his ideas.
1950 10| was reserved by fate to perform the funeral obsequies of
1951 7 | no one to be present at performances except my own children;
1952 10| marched out boldly, and performed prodigies of valour; but
1953 11| Kursheed ordered the head to be perfumed with the most costly essences,
1954 3 | that this peace might prove permanent, but the marriage which
1955 4 | endeavoured to consolidate it permanently. He had entered by degrees
1956 2 | everything, and everything is permissible to him who has the power
1957 7 | Western sovereigns should permit their subjects to enjoy
1958 7 | punishes the guilty, has permitted thy seraglio of Tepelen
1959 2 | murder of Capelan, which its perpetrator intended for a mere crime,
1960 1 | sheep, goats, and other perquisites, probably to keep his hand
1961 2 | from the defiles of the Perrebia of Pindus to the vale of
1962 3 | fugitive, thought that a man persecuted by his enemy would be faithful
1963 2 | inflicted the most rigorous persecutions on such as remained hostile
1964 7 | and pledged Pacho Bey to persevere in his plans of vengeance,
1965 1 | their existence, and as the personality of an individual is all
1966 8 | by underhand methods. He persuaded Suleyman Pacha that the
1967 9 | the gentle caresses and persuasions of Basillisa, the beautiful
1968 2 | fair hair and blue eyes, a persuasive voice, and eloquent tongue,
1969 9 | produced on the monk by the perusal of this paper, Ali hastened
1970 10| Council to unite in signing a petition to the Divan for Ali's pardon. ~
1971 8 | The Divan answered the petitioners that it was their own business
1972 8 | sending presents and humble petitions to Constantinople. But both
1973 2 | Tepelen to limit himself to a petty state, but to employ it
1974 10| of his wife Emineh, whose phantom, after announcing an eternal
1975 8 | save him from the anger of Pharaoh--a figurative mode of warning
1976 7 | planets and discover the Philosopher's Stone. Not perceiving
1977 4 | neighbours on every pretext. Phocis, Mtolia, Acarnania, were
1978 8 | commissioned to make, ambiguous phrases which were read by the Christians
1979 3 | confidence, became his trusted physician and apothecary, and gave
1980 9 | astonished, proceeded to pick up and examine these projectiles.
1981 4 | uttered a prolonged and piercing cry, and cast themselves
1982 5 | Mohammedans on account of his piety, and universally beloved
1983 11| wooden structure raised upon pillars, like the open-air theatres
1984 10| voice, and sleep forsook his pillow, his countenance altered,
1985 3 | spits, torn with redhot pincers, and slowly roasted between
1986 10| foot of the rampart. "The Pindian bear is yet alive," said
1987 2 | and caused a goat to be pinioned and muzzled, and fastened
1988 3 | Christian, and the idea of a pious pilgrimage and a sacred
1989 2 | place, himself offered him a pipe-and coffee, which were accepted.
1990 2 | but were interrupted by a piquet of my men, who unexpectedly
1991 8 | of every sort and kind, pirates, coiners, renegades, assassins,
1992 9 | braziers filled with lighted pitch-wood, and advanced towards the
1993 8 | ears of the sultan; who, pitying his misfortunes, made him
1994 5 | the town of Kardiki was plainly visible. Next day at daybreak
1995 7 | he hoped to ascend to the planets and discover the Philosopher'
1996 9 | hundred men, as far as a large plateau on which he perceived at
1997 10| cannon which were on the platforms, crumbling from the hostile
1998 8 | the part he was obliged to play, Ali, after long hesitation,
1999 10| latter excused himself on the plea of illness, and offered
2000 2 | resistance. To refuse to plead was tantamount to a confession
2001 6 | acknowledged his guilt, pleaded the violence of his passion,
2002 4 | irreproachable. But her tears and pleadings produced no effect on Ali,
2003 2 | consented to learn to read, to please his mother, whose idol he
2004 3 | wine-skin in one evening after a plentiful meal. Gifted with the hereditary
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