The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-11-30
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Tne adventurous LIE OF an EngIts
surgeon-How Hc was Compelled 20
Marry, and How Hc Lost His WIFE
Romance within Romance.
tCharlcs Dudley Warner, in scribner for De.
cember.l
One who would paint the manners or
morals Of Constantinople might adorn
his theme with many anecdotes charac-
t~eristic Of a condition Of society which
is foreign to u experience. I select
one which has the merit of being liter
ally true. You who believe that mod
ern omance exists only in tales Of fic-
ton, listen to the story of q beauty Of
Constantinople, the vicissitudes Of
whose life equal in variety, il not in i'm
portance, those Of Theodore and Ath-
enais. For obvious reasons l shall
mention no names.
There lives now on the banks Of the
Bosphorus a English physician, who,
at the entreaty Of Lord Byron, went to
Greece in 1924 as q volunteer surgeon
in the war of independence; he arrived
only in time to see the poet expire at
Missolonghi. In the course of the wal
he was taken prisoner by the Egyptian
troops, who in their great need of sur
geons kept him actively employed in
his profession. He did not regain his
freedom until after the war, and then
only on condition that he should reside
in Constantinople as one of the physi-
clans of the Sultan, Mohammed III.
We may suppose that the Oriental
life was not unpleasant, nor the po-
sition irksome to him, for he soon so
far yielded to the temptations of the
capital as to fall in love with a very
pretty face which he sew daily in a bay
window of the street he %traversed On the
way to the seraglio. Acquaintance,
which sometimes precedes love, in this
case followed it; the Doctor declared
his passion and was accepted by the
willing maid. But an Oriental bay
window is the opportunity of the world,
and the Doctor, becoming convinced
that his afianced was a desperate dirt,
and yielding to the entreaties of his
friends, broke off the engagement, and
left her free, in her eyrie, to continue
her observations upon mankind. This,
however, did not suit the plans of the
lovely and tickle girl. One morning,
shortly after, he was summoned to see
two Turkish ladies who awaited him in
his office; when he appeared, the Greek
rirl (fpr IL xya ohaN and hnr mnfhpr
threw aside their disguise, and declared
that they would not leave the house I'M
til the Doctor married the daughter, for
the rupture of the engagement had
rendered it impossible to procure any
other husband. Whether her "
beauty or the terrible aspect of the
mother prevailed, | do not know, but
the English chaplain was sent for; he
refused to perform the ceremony, and
a Greek priest was found who married
them.
This marriage, which took the ap-
pearance of dur ess, might have been
happy if the compelling party to it had
left her fondness of adventure and vari-
ETY. at the wedding threshold; but her
constancy was only assumed, like the
Turkish vail, for an occasion; lovers
were not wanting, and after the birth
of three children, two sons and a
daughter, she deserted her husband
and went to live with young Turk,
who has since held high Office in the
Government Of the Sultan. 1t was in
. her character of Nine. Mehemet Pasha
, that she wrote Tor one of her ons wrote
, for her) a book well known in the
, West, entitled Thirty Years in a Har-
en-" But her intriguing spirit was
, not extinct even in a Turkish harem
q. She attempted to palm of upon the
, Pasha, as her own, a child that she had
, bought; her device was detected by
one of the palace eunuchs, and at the
Q same time her amour with
a Greek of the city came tc
|, light. The eunuch incurred her dis
5 pleasure for his ofliciousness, and she
i. had him strangled and thrown into the
Bosphorus. Some say that the reso'
lutte woman even assisted with her owl
, hands For these breaches Of deco
rum, however, she paid dearly. Tit
. Pasha banished her to Kutayah, with
orders to the guard who attended he
9 to poison her on the way, but she 81
won the affections of the officer that HI
let her escape at Broussa. There he
n beauty, if not her piety, recommended
her to an Imam of one of the mosques
q and she married him, and seems for
d time to have led a quiet life; at an.
rate, nothing further was heard of he
d until just before the famous choler'
season, when news came of the deati
of her husband, the Moslem priest, ant
IS that she was living in extreme poverty
all her beauty gone forever, and con
o sequcntly her ability to procure anoth
or husband.
e The Pasha, Mehemet, lived in a beau
sc tiful palace on the eastern shore of tn
D. Bosphorus, neal Kandili. During tn
ID great cholera epidemic of 1865, the Pa
s, sha was taken i'll. One day there az
ot peared at the gate an unknown woman
Of who said that she had come to cure tn
a. Pasha; no one knew her, but she spok
with authority, and was admitted.
was our adventures. She nursed tn
Pasha with the most tender care an
watchful skill, so that he recovered
ms and, in gratitude for the preservatio
of his life, he permitted her and he