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The travels of Théophile Gautier (1912)

Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872, Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de), 1845-1933 · Boston : Little, Brown and company · leaf 184

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the houses allowed the interiors to beseen; at the untrellised windows showed lovely femaleheads \ earing rose or blue crépon, and crowned withgreat plaits of hair in the form of diadems. Younggirls, seated on the threshold, looked freely into thestreet, and we could admire, without putting them… … •g^«l« «A* «A* fl» »£• •>« «A« «A* •<« •A««J;>«A««J««§«»4* »1« •!« «A» •#• #§« •>• ^Svagi THE WALLS OF CONSTANTINOPLE were swallowing glasses of raki and getting drunk likegood Christians. We were in Psammathia, the quar-ter inhabited by rayots, non-Mussulman subjects of thePorte, who…

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