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| | Theodora Phranza; or, the Fall of Constantinople, by John Mason Neale (1913) |
 | | Nearly opposite was the house of which the Pasha had taken temporary possession; it had been that of the mayor, or, as he called himself, the constable of the place, and was a dwelling of some size, and not ill calculated for its present purpose. |
 | | Achmet Pasha, a good-looking, though somewhat corpulent man, of about fifty, was seated on a carpet at the upper end of the room, and solacing himself, after the fatigues of the day, with sherbet. |
 | | The Lochagus, on leaving the Pasha, found his way into the court-yard of the house, where several Turkish guards were drinking, and sat down among them, apparently occupied in listening to their occasional remarks, but in reality reconnoitring the size and capacity of the building. |
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