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2005 10| Pacho Bey, and of Ismail Pliaga, whom he detested equally,
2006 4 | It was a village called Plikivitza. ~Having arrived in the
2007 8 | strength of my youth, I would plunge my sword into his heart
2008 3 | a letter was found in a pocket which Ali had himself just
2009 8 | literary persons. At Vienna a poem was pointed in his honour,
2010 7 | verses which, faithful to the poetical and mocking genius of them
2011 7 | Xenocles, the last of the Greek poets, inspired by this sublime
2012 10| orders, and indicated to what points his guns should be directed.
2013 3 | symptoms of death appeared, the poisoner fled, aided by the emissaries
2014 1 | saved it on the plains of Poitiers, had set bounds to the wave
2015 9 | the prince advised the Polemarchs, chiefs of the Selleid,
2016 10| the influence of a sort of polite modesty these were at least
2017 2 | better neighbour and an abler politician than his predecessors, sought
2018 7 | scent of orange trees, of pomegranates and citrons. But the lovely
2019 5 | celebrated his clemency in pompous speeches, to which he replied
2020 5 | spread over Janina. The populace, as if trying to drown their
2021 3 | neglected no means of acquiring popularity. A fervent disciple of Mahomet
2022 11| dragged him out into the porch, where, placing his head
2023 2 | nervous energy through every pore. Possibly he learnt in the
2024 8 | Ali had loaded him; and Porphyro, Archbishop of Arta, to
2025 9 | Cleisoura, Premiti, the port of Panormus, Santi-Quaranta,
2026 9 | communication even beyond the portals of the grave, watched over
2027 11| fired at long intervals. The portcullis was raised to admit the
2028 3 | considered as the marriage portion of Ibrahim's eldest daughter,
2029 7 | his retreat. The captain, posing as a merchant, invited Ismail
2030 11| traffic exhibited at every post-house, until it arrived at Constantinople. ~
2031 2 | from a copse where I had posted them, and they were obliged
2032 5 | letters of gold, informing posterity that six hundred Kardikiotes
2033 1 | learned researches of M. de Pouqueville that he sprang from a native
2034 4 | woman of that name in great poverty. He ordered her to be brought
2035 10| castle of Litharitza, and a practicable trench of nearly forty feet
2036 4 | presiding at the artillery practice of some French gunners sent
2037 2 | are speaking, he had long practised open pillage. His plundering
2038 2 | gaining for the pacha the praise and favours which he deserved,
2039 8 | his agents. As an extra precaution, the guardians of the passes
2040 2 | defiance all efforts and all precautions. If they shut him up, he
2041 2 | through forests, scaling precipices, rolling in snow, inhaling
2042 6 | assassinate him. This was not precisely easy; for, exposed to a
2043 5 | this injunction was the precursor of a terrible vengeance:
2044 2 | all the property of his predecessor, as confiscated to the sultan,
2045 2 | abler politician than his predecessors, sought to renew and preserve
2046 4 | legally escape from this predicament. He spent some days in making
2047 3 | households, and seemed to dispute preeminence in evil with their father,
2048 6 | until she found she was pregnant. Then, half-avowals from
2049 9 | Cannia, Berat, Cleisoura, Premiti, the port of Panormus, Santi-Quaranta,
2050 9 | occupied as arranged. All preparations for battle were made, and
2051 7 | one else to share in this prerogative. To avoid being jolted,
2052 8 | yielding to the most dire presentiments, when a courier, arriving
2053 11| with the further duty of presenting it to the sultan, was escorted
2054 4 | and one day, when Ali was presiding at the artillery practice
2055 9 | Overjoyed, he ordered them to press on to the second intrenchment,
2056 7 | hid in their clothing and pressed to their bosoms, as if fearing
2057 9 | service, and they demanded pressingly that Ali should give up
2058 3 | and strangled without any pretence of trial. The whole palace
2059 3 | and activity, and nothing prevented his profiting by the advantages
2060 2 | had won them by lot the previous morning. This state of things
2061 8 | Christians, your children. O primates! I call upon you to defend
2062 8 | dispenses crowns to the princes who reign in this world,
2063 3 | occupied this position. It was principally inhabited by Albanians,
2064 9 | in all things. From this principle we derive that of rewards
2065 3 | carefully educated in the principles of their father. ~Ali's
2066 11| least the favour of dying in privacy; and he must have endured
2067 4 | original among them had the privilege of themselves carrying out
2068 3 | the victors received their prizes from the hand of their chief.
2069 10| proved that he foresaw the probable result. ~Kursheed was recompensed
2070 2 | lead him into the paths of probity. He appeared amenable to
2071 9 | and who was instructed to proceed along the western slope
2072 10| Greeks were now everywhere proclaiming their independence, and
2073 7 | were soon confirmed by a proclamation of the Lord High Commissioner,
2074 11| whose merits might have procured the pardon of his family
2075 4 | secretary to his son Veli, professedly as a pledge of reconciliation
2076 4 | the only victim. But Ali, professing to follow the advice of
2077 1 | After some years of this profitable business, he found himself
2078 7 | Parga. ~All Greece was then profoundly stirred by a faint gleam
2079 9 | pick up and examine these projectiles. Instead of a match, they
2080 7 | with powder, in order to prolong the agony; now, a Christian
2081 4 | song ended, they uttered a prolonged and piercing cry, and cast
2082 4 | both of Selim, whom the promoters wished to reestablish on
2083 8 | The news of Pacho Bey's promotion roused Ali from the security
2084 7 | latter, guessing a trap, fled promptly, and for some time all trace
2085 5 | father, whose name do you now pronounce? Pray for me, or at least
2086 3 | Breathing unutterable rage and pronouncing horrible imprecations against
2087 7 | Paleopoulo, died, having prophesied the approaching Greek insurrection
2088 10| vouchsafed no explanation of this prophetic sentence. ~Ali did not on
2089 2 | passions, promised a vengeance proportioned to the outrage, and worked
2090 2 | numerous victims of his proscriptions only perished to enrich
2091 8 | Maitland. But the time of prosperity had gone by, and the regard
2092 8 | leaders, and a crowd of prostitutes. ~Thus attacked in the person
2093 9 | which, instead of helping or protecting them, fell upon them, plundered
2094 3 | kindness of his too credulous protector, insinuated himself into
2095 7 | neither in the infamy of their protectors nor in their own misfortune;
2096 2 | little suspecting that his protege had become his accuser and
2097 3 | he could not prevent, and protested only by tears against these
2098 1 | good bandit. ~The Albanians proudly called this anarchy liberty,
2099 7 | says the forcible Turkish proverb, and a forerunner of disasters
2100 3 | to show his gratitude to Providence for having protected him
2101 4 | Allah grant me the means of proving my innocence, which is as
2102 10| insurrection which he himself had provoked, so far as to see that in
2103 2 | These exploits of the provost-marshal, amplified by Oriental exaggeration,
2104 2 | spread his fame, relating his prowess to all comers, making presents
2105 3 | pilgrim can only be sent as proxy to Mecca, or offerings be
2106 8 | compromise his real power by puerile displays of dignity; and
2107 11| lost all illusions. His pulse beat violently, but his
2108 9 | ordered the murderer to be punished, but when the sentence was
2109 7 | Ali a letter, "Allah, who punishes the guilty, has permitted
2110 3 | to the gallows. In thus punishing the assassin, Ali at one
2111 9 | derive that of rewards and punishments, and although my services
2112 3 | frequently endeavoured either to purchase or to overthrow. The army
2113 6 | see it in action before purchasing. ~In the dungeons of the
2114 4 | my innocence, which is as pure as the rays of the sun,
2115 4 | that the light of truth may purify their minds?" ~The tribunal
2116 11| the animal covered with purple housings, while Ali's shield,
2117 3 | just placed there, which purported to give the details of the
2118 7 | confined them both in a dungeon purposely constructed under the grand
2119 11| sack, was flung into the Pursak--a river whose waters mingle
2120 5 | suicide at the moment when, in pursuance of the treaty, Ali's soldiers
2121 7 | the haste of one who fears pursuit. Arrived in Macedonia, he
2122 2 | commercial relations with the purveyors of the Magnificent Republic.
2123 7 | collected the bones and putrefying corpses. The beautiful olive
2124 9 | by the conqueror of the Pyramids to Djezzar, the Pacha of
2125 3 | himself led the chorus in the Pyrrhic and Klephtic dances, the
2126 7 | ornaments, torches, tapers, pyxes, had by this treaty all
2127 3 | noted for its doctors, for a quack who undertook to poison
2128 9 | vizier noted for his lofty qualities. He then added that these
2129 10| seals and other persons of quality. Ali received them with
2130 9 | English, and an enormous quantity of munitions of war. Finally,
2131 7 | it, upsetting each other, quarreling, fighting, and uttering
2132 3 | order to participate in the quarrels of his faction in the forum.
2133 6 | killed Ali's admiral on his quarter-deck. He was a Greek of Galaxidi,
2134 10| neighbouring mosque was quartered his garrison, consisting
2135 4 | she replied. ~"Basilessa, Queen! it is a name of good augury.
2136 2 | against the insurgents and quell the rising in blood. ~Instead
2137 3 | the two families was now quenched, and thought herself at
2138 7 | passed in mournful silence, quiet as death, At sunset on the
2139 8 | was obliged to obey. He quitted the new palace he had just
2140 1 | and the skilful robber quoted as an example to the children
2141 7 | ashes and sell them. The rabble can be governed by fear
2142 9 | the Armatolis, the Greek races of the mainland and those
2143 4 | soldier's imagination was racked for the discovery of new
2144 4 | moment before was furiously raging and storming against his
2145 7 | parts. He sat, covered with rags, on a shabby palm-leaf mat
2146 2 | the highways. Thence he raided the Pindus chain of mountains,
2147 1 | continued to amuse himself by raiding from time to time sheep,
2148 9 | October, by which time the rains would begin, and the enemy
2149 3 | the race of Skipetars, and ranking as the refuse of the army,
2150 6 | when lately at Janina still rankled in his mind. As Yussuf was
2151 2 | for their horrible fate, ransomed them for twenty thousand
2152 9 | laid out in gratifying the rapacity of the ministers. Otherwise,
2153 8 | palace he had just built at Rapehani, and betook himself to the
2154 10| at first uneasy, ended by rarely mentioning either the one
2155 10| castle, which they had so rashly occupied, was undermined. "
2156 4 | were compelled to eat them raw, dressed as a salad. One
2157 4 | which is as pure as the rays of the sun, although everything
2158 6 | doubling Cape Pancrator and re-entering the Ambracian Gulf under
2159 8 | victory, and we will shortly re-establish the Greek Empire, and drive
2160 9 | shall retain, without annual re-investiture, my pachalik of Janina,
2161 9 | of this dispute, but in reality on the subject of their
2162 9 | preparing to make on their rear. Ali, guessing that the
2163 2 | account. Overcome by the reasoning of his son-in-law and the
2164 10| acquaintances, who united in reassuring him and in giving him great
2165 6 | Christian town on the coast, had rebelled against him and allied itself
2166 1 | against house; sometimes rebelling against the government their
2167 1 | there were wider spread rebellions which attacked the constitution
2168 3 | egotism, he is Cesar Borgia reborn as a Mussulman; he is the
2169 7 | Albania required them to rebuild and refurnish the formidable
2170 8 | palace of Tepelen had been rebuilt at the public expense, and
2171 9 | comedy in the intention of rebutting the accusation of incest
2172 8 | degree, and that he would, as recalcitrant, be placed under the ban
2173 8 | dealt with at any cost, recapitulated all Ali's crimes, and pronounced
2174 9 | stupefied Noutza into the recess of a casemate, and sending
2175 3 | his name, joined to the recital of a massacre which ranked
2176 7 | policy. Above all, they reckoned on powerful assistance from
2177 10| first come to Epirus, Ali, recognising his ability, became anxious
2178 4 | independent, and to obtain recognition as Prince of Greece. A mysterious
2179 9 | and as often was forced to recoil towards his castles. He
2180 1 | Osmanli warlike instincts recoiled upon themselves. The haughty
2181 3 | lying at his feet, and the recollection afflicted and tormented
2182 1 | where were preserved the recollections of Scander Beg, and where
2183 10| probable result. ~Kursheed was recompensed for the deception by which
2184 9 | this kingdom which he had reconquered for the sultan, why was
2185 2 | treasure which enabled him to reconstitute his party. But he himself
2186 9 | deprivation and excommunication; recounting how the rebel pacha, shut
2187 6 | indignantly repulsed, he had recourse to drugs, and the unhappy
2188 7 | carefully sifted in hopes of recovering the gold in the tassels
2189 9 | Ismail by complaints and recriminations, while his gondola should
2190 1 | money in the capital, and recuperated themselves in the provinces.
2191 3 | impaled on spits, torn with redhot pincers, and slowly roasted
2192 10| of the lake, and threw up redoubts upon it, whence he kept
2193 10| courage is, that you should reduce Arta, and take alive Ismail
2194 10| he had been duped by the reduction of the fortress of Litharitza.
2195 1 | and shelterless, bent like reeds before the storm and evaded
2196 4 | the promoters wished to reestablish on the throne, and of Mustapha
2197 2 | increased at court, order was reestablished from the defiles of the
2198 3 | commended his skill, and referred him to the treasurer. But
2199 10| Ali a remarkable warning. "Reflect," said he, "that these rebels
2200 6 | at Ali's banquet. ~As Ali reflected how the storm he had raised
2201 1 | striking, in proportion as it reflects the manners and ideas of
2202 2 | years, believing in his reformation, and moved by the prayers
2203 4 | the advice of some severe reformers who wished to restore decent
2204 11| whilst the escort partook of refreshment and changed horses, and
2205 10| bread of charity, and as a refugee is only valued in proportion
2206 7 | required them to rebuild and refurnish the formidable palace of
2207 10| days, had been entirely refurnished, and it was proposed that
2208 9 | himself, and, receiving only refusals, at last threatened to lay
2209 10| as much as possible, by refusing their pay, he thinking them
2210 9 | castle, and only thought of regaining their country and enjoying
2211 1 | preceded and brought about the regeneration of Greece. ~Ali's own will
2212 3 | to obtain. Soon the whole region echoed with stories of devastation
2213 3 | cadi, whom he compelled to register and proclaim his firmans
2214 3 | family. This he mentioned regularly in conversation, writing
2215 7 | guards, rode without drawing rein to Tepelen. As soon as he
2216 10| such as theirs required no reinforcement. And when some of them besought
2217 8 | title which he affected to reject with indignation; and he
2218 7 | who would have cause to rejoice at his death, Consequently
2219 7 | and, applauding him, would relate some fresh anecdote of cruelty,
2220 9 | then plunged into details, related the pillaging, avarice,
2221 1 | attached him by the ties of relationship to the principal families
2222 2 | the palace of his powerful relative, who heaped benefits upon
2223 10| during which the Turks relax hostilities, and a species
2224 5 | prisoners in cold blood. Release the Kardikiotes, give them
2225 3 | from great danger, and Ali released some prisoners in order
2226 8 | family, was at least able to relegate Veli to the obscure post
2227 11| The sight of this dreaded relic, exposed on the 23rd of
2228 3 | and his victims. It is a relief, in the midst of this atrocious
2229 10| he had only intended to relieve himself of some of them.
2230 10| on the subject of various religious ceremonies. Discipline was
2231 1 | this anarchy liberty, and religiously guarded a state of disorder
2232 9 | in which were interred reliquaries adorned with precious stones;
2233 2 | timber in a forest near Lake Reloda. Ali immediately took advantage
2234 9 | destroyed in a moment; the remainder was enclosed in strong-boxes,
2235 7 | it was only requisite to remind him of his vow. Pacho Hey
2236 9 | and that henceforth he remitted the taxes paid to his own
2237 2 | made the most plausible remonstrances against the inefficacy and
2238 7 | richest of Oriental carpets, remorse stood ever beside him. Through
2239 11| women occupied the most remote apartments. Everything seemed
2240 2 | further emboldened by his remoteness from the capital, the Pacha
2241 7 | flower, the priests might not remove either relics or sacred
2242 1 | must have had the effect of rendering Ali badly disposed towards
2243 8 | kind, pirates, coiners, renegades, assassins, whom he kept
2244 2 | predecessors, sought to renew and preserve friendly commercial
2245 10| fasting, and terrified into a renewal of devotion, and not likely
2246 2 | attention to the exterior. Renouncing all the habit of her sex,
2247 10| which will be worthy of my renown, and of the brilliant end
2248 11| gratification, and the head of the renowned vizier was degraded into
2249 8 | army could not subsist. ~In repairing to the posts assigned to
2250 7 | be brought, would bid him repeat his verses, and, applauding
2251 9 | richly caparisoned mule and repeating the curse fulminated by
2252 2 | influences, and bitterly to repent his past errors. After some
2253 7 | it became necessary to repeople it. With this object in
2254 4 | beautiful wife; who should replace, and even efface the memory
2255 8 | government of Thessaly, and replaced Ali himself in the office
2256 10| good use of his time in replacing the stores lost in the conflagration,
2257 2 | rapine and plunder that he replenished his finances. He selected
2258 9 | shelter at a distance. ~These representations, made with warmth conviction,
2259 9 | first refused any credit, represented to him that their fate was
2260 8 | him with a coat of arms, representing, on a field gules, a lion,
2261 9 | despatched to Aleppo to repress a trifling sedition of emirs
2262 1 | accuse me of vindictive reprisals; my brothers drove me out
2263 7 | to overcome my foes! If I reproach myself with anything, it
2264 10| Bessiaris. Ali listened without reproaching them for their treachery,
2265 2 | purveyors of the Magnificent Republic. This wise conduct, equally
2266 3 | of Albania, and who was reputed to have emptied a whole
2267 8 | barrel of powder, which only requires a spark to explode it."
2268 9 | political existence, and only requiring that the Suliot captains
2269 7 | was able, and it was only requisite to remind him of his vow.
2270 1 | made certain by the learned researches of M. de Pouqueville that
2271 2 | whose character nearly resembled that of Tepeleni. The latter,
2272 8 | vizier," he was answered, "resembles a man wrapped in costly
2273 11| evil designs, no mental reservations, were entertained. At length,
2274 4 | fulfil his wishes, had yet in reserve a more precious gift than
2275 9 | castles. He brought up his reserves, but in vain. Fate had declared
2276 2 | capital of Central Albania and residence of the governor. The country
2277 9 | all that could be said, in residing in her castle of Libokovo.
2278 4 | deceived by his apparent resignation, and applauded his magnanimity,
2279 10| authority, were removed; he resigned the plumes of office; his
2280 9 | called Pacho Bey, into resisting, not indeed the authority
2281 10| This place was his last resort, a kind of mausoleum; and
2282 5 | increasing rapidity, the air resounded with firing, songs, cries,
2283 3 | disclosed that even this last resource had been forcibly taken
2284 1 | the one hand, so did their resources diminish on the other. Their
2285 5 | himself by degrading his more respectable subjects. Day and night
2286 11| three times before it, and respectfully kissed the beard, expressing
2287 2 | for inability to pay his respects to a man whom he was accustomed
2288 2 | a man in any position of responsibility is condemned almost as soon
2289 6 | to enter, being supposed responsible for the conduct of his sons'
2290 9 | return. ~The next day Ali was resting, with his head on Basilissa'
2291 2 | incessantly implored the restitution of her dear son, the generous
2292 9 | evidence, began to soothe the restless fever which was wasting
2293 8 | Ali Pasha! Long live the restorer of liberty!" uttered by
2294 3 | pledge was that Ali should resume his plans of aggrandizement
2295 4 | misfortune, consented to his resuming the government of Thessaly. ~
2296 1 | drove me out of doors, and I retaliate by keeping them at home
2297 7 | as a friend. The latter retarded the reception of Vaya so
2298 1 | of horses, with a great retinue of servants and men-at-arms,
2299 4 | he himself ordered their retinues, giving them officers of
2300 7 | fulfilment of his wishes. In the retirement of his fairy-like palace
2301 9 | forces of the Seraskier, who retreated hastily to his intrenchments. ~
2302 8 | their ancestral houses, and, reunited under my standard, will
2303 1 | they constantly found their revenue inadequate. The most natural
2304 11| firman. "I know them and revere them." "Then bow before
2305 9 | and finally-- the much revered sabre of Krim-Guerai. The
2306 1 | Without mentioning local revolts which produced only short-lived
2307 9 | the Mamelukes, was only rewarded for these services by being
2308 9 | mountaineers rushing down to the>> rey; only large numbers who
2309 9 | of the lake. ~This noisy rhodomontade did not prevent Ali from
2310 11| friends perish, himself riddled with wounds, set fire to
2311 5 | drink, and to take part in ridiculous and indecent dances, Ali
2312 2 | and inflicted the most rigorous persecutions on such as
2313 2 | Tepelen, which they entered, riotous with joy, crying 'Ali Bey
2314 7 | In the midst of plains ripening for a rich harvest were
2315 5 | Ali forbade any burial rites on pain of death, and placed
2316 11| according to the Mohammedan ritual, was deposited in a coffin
2317 9 | corpses, and the trees by the roadside converted into gibbets.
2318 11| from a wound in his chest, roared like a bull with rage. No
2319 4 | sends me away in order to rob me; but I will avenge myself
2320 1 | the lyre, and the skilful robber quoted as an example to
2321 3 | ceremonials of warriors and of robbers. There was no lack of wine,
2322 4 | a solemn dance round the rocky platform. As the song ended,
2323 2 | forests, scaling precipices, rolling in snow, inhaling the wind,
2324 9 | Instead of a match, they found rolls of paper enclosed in a wooden
2325 9 | reason? Having been twice Romili-Valicy, why, when he should have
2326 10| this, it will strike at the root of the evil, and my treasures
2327 3 | with the deductions of his rough intelligence, he had by
2328 2 | then returned home by a roundabout path. Soon after I had left,
2329 8 | to the shore, where the rowers received him with acclamations.
2330 10| Ali Tepelen submitted, the royal promise given to his sons
2331 3 | Bektagis who professed a rude pantheism, a Christian among
2332 9 | defiled with the blood of ruffians who fought for chalices
2333 2 | to gain independence, the ruling passion of viziers. The
2334 9 | prodigies, visions, or popular rumours, and the Mohammedans became
2335 3 | himself, and took the supposed runaway into his service. The traitor
2336 2 | assassination, Selim's bodyguard, running up, found Ali erect, covered
2337 9 | passes by the mountaineers rushing down to the>> rey; only
2338 9 | finally-- the much revered sabre of Krim-Guerai. The signal
2339 9 | crying "Treason!". ~Ali sabred the fugitives mercilessly,
2340 5 | Kardikiotes had there been sacrificed to the memory of his mother
2341 7 | encroachments as simple sacrilege. But Ali Pacha fascinated
2342 11| insignia, were borne on the saddles of several led horses. The
2343 3 | Realising the Marquis de Sade as his father had realised
2344 8 | seraglio, casting a look of sadness on the beautiful gardens
2345 3 | preferring a slower and safer way to a short and dangerous
2346 11| argument ensued, in which Ali's sagacity, skill, and artifice struggled
2347 11| mingle with those of the Sagaris. Katherin, Veli's other
2348 8 | was never to see again, sailed towards Erevesa, where he
2349 6 | and a barque manned by sailors from Paxos pursued them,
2350 5 | of Janina, venerated as a saint by the Mohammedans on account
2351 1 | impregnable in his citadel of Saint-Jean-d'Acre, or that of Passevend-Oglou
2352 8 | proceeding to the Mosque of Saint-Sophia, on the day on which the
2353 7 | before the leaden figures of saints which adorned his hat. He
2354 4 | cemetery of the monastery of Saints-Anargyres, where her tomb, covered
2355 4 | eat them raw, dressed as a salad. One young man was scalped
2356 5 | of the principal chiefs, Saleh Bey, and his wife, foreseeing
2357 9 | relegated to the obscure post of Salonica? And, when appointed Grand
2358 11| appointed to render the proper salutes, acted as chief mourner,
2359 9 | slowly before the Turks, saluting them with cannon-shot if
2360 1 | Mouktar prisoner on Mount San Salvador, where he was in charge
2361 9 | appeared he ordered a general salvo of artillery and shouted
2362 1 | Mouktar prisoner on Mount San Salvador, where he was in
2363 7 | voice, proceeding from the sanctuary, reminded them that the
2364 2 | this story had aroused, sanguinary passions, promised a vengeance
2365 1 | against the government their sanjaks; sometimes in league with
2366 9 | Premiti, the port of Panormus, Santi-Quaranta, Buthrotum, Delvino, Argyro-Castron,
2367 2 | grandeur which nothing could satiate. In vain his father sought
2368 5 | enjoying the repose of a satiated tiger, an indignant and
2369 5 | gold, put them in a white satin purse, and himself hastened
2370 7 | chanting in the streets the satirical verses which, faithful to
2371 3 | accomplished his mission satisfactorily, and was received by Ali
2372 3 | happy to conclude a fairly satisfactory negotiation. A family alliance
2373 8 | necessity I was under of satisfying the inordinate cupidity
2374 9 | inhabitants thought only of saving themselves and their property
2375 2 | expeditions added to his mother's savings, who since her return from
2376 4 | salad. One young man was scalped until the skin fell back
2377 3 | made a pretext out of the scandal started by himself, and
2378 4 | his wounds, and shared thy scanty food with him, and when
2379 7 | dwellings at break of day, and scattering on the shore, endeavoured
2380 7 | the air was balmy with the scent of orange trees, of pomegranates
2381 5 | Athanasius Vaya, a Greek schismatic, and a favourite of the
2382 1 | Corfu, in 1716. Marshal Schullemburg, who defended the island,
2383 1 | recovered. Thus all the science of administration resolved
2384 5 | be flung back by either scimitars or muskets. It was a terrible
2385 2 | were closed, she gave free scope to the violent passions
2386 10| having crossed over with a score of soldiers, found himself
2387 9 | proceeded to enforce their scorn with well-aimed cannon shots,
2388 2 | length it was freed from its scourge. The whole body of bandits
2389 3 | were shaved and publicly scourged, and then sold as slaves. ~
2390 1 | side from the unconquerable Scythians, on the other from the ancient
2391 9 | Tepelen, Parga, Prevesa, Sderli, Paramythia, Arta, the post
2392 10| accompanied by his keeper of the seals and other persons of quality.
2393 3 | He ordered the body to be searched, and a letter was found
2394 11| their sultan by the Turks in seasons of popular excitement. ~
2395 3 | compassion, issued from her seclusion and cast herself at Ali'
2396 9 | Government without delay. Secondly, as it is important for
2397 7 | women without distinction of sect. But Ali contrived to change
2398 8 | composed of the chiefs of both sects, Mussulmans and Christians.
2399 9 | Aleppo to repress a trifling sedition of emirs and janissaries?
2400 3 | Ali had endeavoured to seduce his daughter, already the
2401 8 | interest. Nor were the means of seduction wanting to Ali, whose wealth
2402 | seem
2403 4 | Georgian slave. ~Fortune, seemingly always ready both to crown
2404 4 | Euphrosyne!" he cried, and, seizing one of his pistols, fired
2405 11| popular excitement. ~The Selaon-Aga, an officer appointed to
2406 2 | replenished his finances. He selected from his old band of brigands
2407 3 | declaring that he had killed in self-defence a villain who endeavoured
2408 3 | carrying out this terrible and self-given pledge was that Ali should
2409 2 | Turks, haughty by nature and self-restrained by education. Scarcely out
2410 2 | composition of every vice--selfish, ambitious, turbulent, fierce.
2411 9 | which is the key of the Selleide. ~The Seraskier replied
2412 9 | come, he thought only of selling his life as dearly as possible.
2413 9 | endeavoured to establish a line of semaphores between Janina and Prevesa,
2414 1 | Unconsciously imitating the Roman Senate, the Turkish Divan put up
2415 4 | window in the palace, "he sends me away in order to rob
2416 3 | and gave himself up to sensuality. Ardent in everything, he
2417 2 | to enrich him. His death sentences always fell on beys and
2418 9 | visible in the starlight, the sentinels placed to watch on the hostile
2419 9 | the fourteen leagues which separate Janina from Arta. But others,
2420 2 | Cleisoura, destined in the sequel to cut a tragic figure in
2421 3 | had by a sort of logical sequence formulated an inflexible
2422 2 | in place of Capelan. He sequestered all the property of his
2423 11| firing of the guns of the seraglio--roused the enthusiasm of
2424 1 | to Kourd Pacha, Vizier of Serat, who was descended from
2425 9 | the Montenegrins and the Servians, inciting them to revolt,
2426 2 | Pacha of Delvino gloried in setting law and authority at defiance. ~
2427 3 | himself to the definite settlement of his claims. He was now
2428 7 | to the full. But already seventy-eight years had passed over his
2429 4 | follow the advice of some severe reformers who wished to
2430 9 | I fear not to invoke his severity towards those who have abused
2431 2 | Renouncing all the habit of her sex, she abandoned the veil
2432 7 | covered with rags, on a shabby palm-leaf mat placed. at
2433 2 | in his palace. Under the shadow of this hospitable roof,
2434 5 | elapsed before he could shake off the depression caused
2435 9 | entertained the hope of shaking the Ottoman Empire, and
2436 10| assumed fantastic and weird shapes. The balls sung in the air,
2437 9 | for Ali would be shot as sharers in rebellion, it was therefore
2438 9 | chest. Capelan uttered a sharp cry, and his terrified horse
2439 3 | two fires; the women were shaved and publicly scourged, and
2440 11| splendid Indian Cashmere shawl, on which was placed a magnificent
2441 7 | in the Inachus blankets, sheets, and clothes steeped in
2442 4 | covered with white iris and sheltered by a wild olive tree, is
2443 1 | the plains, powerless and shelterless, bent like reeds before
2444 2 | of the cupboards without shelves, so common in the East,
2445 11| ignominiously to Turcoman shepherds, after which the executioners
2446 11| purple housings, while Ali's shield, his sword, his numerous
2447 1 | the storm and evaded the shock against which they were
2448 7 | thousand guineas. The sun shone in cloudless azure, the
2449 5 | threshold of the palace, shook off the dust of his feet
2450 8 | elegant pavilions rose on the shores of the lake; in short, Ali'
2451 1 | revolts which produced only short-lived struggles and trifling changes,
2452 9 | adventurers uttered a terrific shout; to which the cries of the
2453 9 | general salvo of artillery and shouted his war-cry. A few Turks
2454 10| who next day sent a whole shower of balls and shells into
2455 8 | and "Most Clement," were showered upon him, as upon a man
2456 2 | into his government, and showing travellers his palace courtyard
2457 5 | roaring of wild beasts in shows. Enormous spits, loaded
2458 7 | his face in his hands and shrieked aloud for help. Sometimes,
2459 5 | mother Kamco. ~When the shrieks of death ceased in the enclosure,
2460 2 | leaked out from the lying shrouds in which it had been wrapped.
2461 9 | part in bronze, mounted on siege-carriages, and seventy mortars. Besides
2462 2 | day, after hunting, for a siesta in a neighbouring wood.
2463 7 | the ashes to be carefully sifted in hopes of recovering the
2464 1 | where he was in charge of a signalling party, and with a barbarity
2465 10| Calm and immovable, he gave signals to the soldiers who were
2466 10| bearing more than sixty signatures, was then shown to Ali,
2467 6 | boldly refused a sacrilegious simony proposed to him by Ali.
2468 5 | into a drunkenness which simulated pleasure. Disorderly bands
2469 4 | softened by her charms, soon sincerely loved her, and overwhelmed
2470 9 | passion, he threatened to rush singly into the midst of his enemies.
2471 5 | for me, or at least do not sink me to Gehenna with your
2472 8 | wrapped in costly furs, but he sits on a barrel of powder, which
2473 9 | of Mongliana, where was situated Ali's country house, and
2474 7 | few days he explained his situation to them. ~Ali, learning
2475 1 | back than the end of the sixteenth century. ~Mouktar Tepeleni,
2476 6 | in the market-place. The sixth was the messenger whose
2477 9 | and twenty cannons of all sizes, for the most part in bronze,
2478 7 | corners examined, and a skeleton which was discovered still
2479 4 | man was scalped until the skin fell back upon his shoulders,
2480 1 | amongst bold adventurers who skirmished over its ruins. Without
2481 6 | taken refuge. After a few skirmishes, Mouktar entered the town,
2482 5 | square enclosure, open to the sky, and intended to shelter
2483 3 | there was any profit in slandering a family whose ruin he desired
2484 4 | slaves of those who had just slaughtered their husbands and brothers.
2485 7 | waiting a signal before slaying their families, and then
2486 3 | Ali expected, and Kormovo, sleeping on the faith of the treaty,
2487 9 | deepest melancholy, and his sleepless eyes were constantly drowned
2488 2 | For," said he, "water sleeps, but envy never does." These
2489 7 | intentions he guessed, made the slightest hostile movement. However,
2490 10| crowded together on the slopes of Janina. Every sound,
2491 3 | population, and preferring a slower and safer way to a short
2492 11| youths sunk in peaceful slumber, experienced a feeling of
2493 10| objects which adorned this slumbering volcano. He showed them
2494 10| thereby to ascertain the smallest details of all that passed. ~
2495 4 | carefully impregnated with smallpox germs taken from a young
2496 7 | resumed. The latter was still smarting under his recent disappointment,
2497 10| involuntary cries of terror. He smiled at their fears, and assured
2498 5 | he replied with gracious smiles. At the foot of the steep
2499 5 | spits, loaded with meat, smoked before huge braziers, and
2500 4 | to entice them into some snare with greater ease. ~Whilst
2501 9 | immediately conceived a plan for snaring his enemy in his own toils.
2502 4 | Continual lethargy, convulsive sneezing, feverish eyes, soon betokened
2503 2 | scaling precipices, rolling in snow, inhaling the wind, defying
2504 1 | therefore came to pass when Sobieski, who saved Christianity
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