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7 February 1879 — Constantinople | |
Friday. 7th [February 1879]. May & I worked at the church cushions. Nazlie came to see us and was very amusing telling us a great deal abt Turkish life & faith. That on her marriage she had a trousseau of 40 dresses, that each pr of sheets cost £30—& that she had £80000 worth of jewels. She told us abt the Mohammedan notions of Heaven—how Mehemet was to marry the Virgin Mary & every spinster was to find a husband. Women were to have gold fine clothes & diamonds & God will make them a present of 70 children to amuse themselves with &c &c. She said they were never allowed to say “there goes a Christian funeral” but “the Christians are carrying a body to the grave” in order to give the dead person the benefit of the hope that he had been converted to Moslemism at the last moment. A good many people called at 5—the Chasseriots, Zichy & Mr Foster with an Armenian deputation who came to thank us for having gone to their ball. Lord Donoughmore arrived to stay with us. | |
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