Mahmoud

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The next morning, enveloped in a fer- ridgee,1 walking between her disconsolate parents, and followed by a numerous assemblage of the inhabitants, Ina proceeded to the residence of the Aga. Mousaki mingled in the train, his countenance assuming alternately a fiery and cadaverous hue. Arrived...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The next morning, enveloped in a fer- ridgee,1 walking between her disconsolate parents, and followed by a numerous assemblage of the inhabitants, Ina proceeded to the residence of the Aga. Mousaki mingled in the train, his countenance assuming alternately a fiery and cadaverous hue. Arrived at the Aga's, he placed himself opposite to his victim, - and casting his dark eye upon her with a significant import, the trembling girl, overcome with the conflicting emotions of fear, grief, and shame, sank sobbing upon her mother's bosom. I know not why, but the Turks manifested an implacable hatred towards the Papas. True, it was, in some degree, owing to the difference of their religious creed?thevast and infinite difference between the tenets of the Evangelion1 and the Koran. But they entertained a secret cause of enmity against him. Moslemin are not all equally bad. Where they are not bigoted?where their intolerant religion does not interfere with their better feelings, they tolerate Yaoors3 with Christian charity. But the Turks of Androussa could not boast of this amiable quality; scarcely one of them could charge his conscience with an act of improvident kindness. Whether they were summoned to cut a rayah's throat or discuss a pilau, they did it with the same gentlemanly goodwill and indifference. It was said that Mousaki had found considerable treasure in the grove. This alone was sufficient to ensure their enmity; for the finding of money is construed into the discovery of vast wealth; and though the fortunate mortal should offer the whole of it to his unsatiable masters, so unbounded is their avarice, that they are not satisfied until they add the personal property of the fmder to the adventitious treasure. Whether there was any foundation for the report or n...