This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ...ad. vanced to the end of the room, and returned their graceful salutations with the usual formula, which are fixed and unvarying with Armenians as with Turks, and laying, while he spoke, his hand across his breast--a gesture to which the pompous Osmanlis can give exceeding dignity, and grace. Though devoid of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ...ad. vanced to the end of the room, and returned their graceful salutations with the usual formula, which are fixed and unvarying with Armenians as with Turks, and laying, while he spoke, his hand across his breast--a gesture to which the pompous Osmanlis can give exceeding dignity, and grace. Though devoid of the graceful and deficient in the picturesque, Agop was still however grateful for the services of yesterday, and he and his brother Yussuf poured their thanks and blessings on the Prince, with liberality and sincerity. " But you seem ill and suffering," said the Princess to her neighbour, after having expressed to him her satisfaction that Constantine her darling boy should have been present to render him service; " you are pale! and yet they told me you escaped unhurt." " And so he did, Dominizza!--thanks to the miraculous interposition of tfie blessed Virgin, the bullet of the janissary wounded him not; but fear, you know, might have thrown all the blood to his head, and killed him just as well, and so, as is the practice with those who understand, we have had brother Agop bled." Thus were the bad looks of the Armenian accounted for by the Italian Abbate, who it should seem, as indeed is frequently the case with importations of his cloth, pretended to a knowledge of physic as well as of divinity. The Seraff could not deny the effects of fear; and there was no feeling in him to make him blush at them. The Abbate continued: " Nothing can be more distinctly marked as an instance of miraculous interposition, than this case of our devout friend: here is the calpack," (he took up the ponderous black balloon, the Armenian's head-piece, ) " see! here passed the ball--here!--a little lower down, not much...
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