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13 September 1878 — Therapia | |
Friday. 13th [September 1878]. Copied letters for Henry to send by the messenger as Mr Ashburnham is ill & they are short of hands. Painted. Directly after lunch Mrs Burr & I set off in the steam launch for Hyssar & we went up to Ahmed Vefyk P.’s to sketch. We were going to sit outside the garden when he came out himself & persuaded us to go at once to his terrace where we began a sketch & had coffee & tea & very amusing talk from him till Henry, the General, Miss Scobell & the Squire arrived. We took a turn about the garden & then went in. The Pasha who looked patriarchal in his grey cashmere robe lined with sables & under it a striped white & black cotton one, sat with his match in his hand waiting for the gun wh announced the sunset. As soon as he heard it we went in to dinner & partook of a real Turkish meal wh barring the soup was very trying. In an outer room there was another table for those who arrived after the gunfire & below stairs a 3rd 5 altogether counting 2 tables in the Harem. After an interminable dinner we retired to chibouques & nargilehs & at 9 set off home. The Pasha accompanied us to the little square near his house where he was going to mosque & we wended our way down the hill to the steam launch. It was full moon & we had a lovely journey home. Mellony & I had tea to settle our stomachs after our strange meal & then we went to bed. | |
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