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Adventures of young Jack Harkaway and his boy Tinker
Adventures of young Jack Harkaway and his boy Tinker Author:Bracebridge Hemyng 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 LXIII. tHE ORPHAN IS PRESENTED AT COURT—IS A BIT NERVOUS— LESSONS IN THE TURKISH LANGUAGE—MANNERS AND CUSTOMS THE PASHA OF MANY WIVES AN OFFICIAL PRES... more »ENT BOWSTRINGING AN EXECUTION HORROR! THE ORPHAN'S PERIL, AND WHAT CAME OF IT. Having got Chivey and his master together again, we now travel to the Turkish coast to be in the company of young Jack and his friends. The orphan had been roused from his slumbers to be presented to the pasha of that province. His excellency the pasha had done them the honour to pay them a visit of ceremony on board ship, and was seated in great state surrounded by his suite in the best saloon. After the chief personages on board had been presented, his excellency had, according to Captain Deering, desired to see that distinguished personage, Mr. Figgins, alias the orphan. And now the orphan stood trembling outside the door of the saloon. " In you go, Mr. Figgins," whispered Captain Deering. " One moment." " Nonsense." " Just a word." " Bah ! " said the captain, with a grin ; " you aren't going to have a tooth out. In with you." He opened the door, gave the timorous orphan a vigorous drive behind, and Mr. Figgins stood in the august presence. The pasha was seated—it would be irreverent to say squatted, which would better express it—upon a cushion that was, as Paddy says, hanging up on the floor. His excellency was in that peculiar, not to say painful attitude, which less agile mortals find unattainable, but which appears to mean true rest to Turk or tailor. The pasha rejoiced in a beard of enormous dimensions, a grizzled dirt-coloured beard that almost touched the cushion upon which he sat. A turban of red and gold silk was upon his venerable head. And beside his excellency upon a cushion we...« less