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The next day from morn to eve she again waits for him, and at dusk sets out once more along the road, and when she comes back finds him once more in the little hut ... oh, happy delusion!
And thus it goes on from day to day.
From morn to eve the woman accomplishes her usual work, her neighbours and acquaintances perceive no change in her; but as soon as the sun sets[Pg 274] she leaves everyone and everything and avoids all society, for now Halil is expecting her in the open bower of the little garden.
Punctually she appears before him as soon as the sun has set. It has become quite a habit with her already. She so arranges her work that she always has a leisure hour at such times. Sometimes, too, Halil is in a good humour, but at others he is sad and sorrowful. She tells this to the old serving-maid over and over again. Sometimes, too, she whispers in her ear that Halil is cudgelling his brains with all sorts of great ideas, but she is not to speak about it to anyone, as that might easily cost Halil his life.
Poor Halil! Long, long ago his body has crumbled into dust, Death can do him no harm now.
And thus the "White Rose" grows old and grey and gradually fades away. Not a single night does the beloved guest remain away from her. For years and years, long—long years, he comes to her every evening.
And as her son grows up, as he becomes a man with the capacity of judging and understanding, he hears his mother conversing every evening with an invisible shape, and she would have her little son greet this stranger, for she tells him it is his father. And she praises the son to the father, and says what a good, kind-hearted lad he is, and she compares their[Pg 275] faces one with the other. He is the very image of his father, she says; only Halil is now getting old, his beard has begun to be white. Yes, Halil is getting aged. Otherwise he would be exactly like his son.
And the son knows very well that his father, Halil Patrona, was slain many, many long years ago by the Janissaries.
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Maurus Jókai's Famous Novels.Authorised Editions. Crown 8vo, Art Linen, 6/= each.
Black Diamonds. (Fifth Edition.)
By Maurus Jókai, Author of "The Green Book," "Poor Plutocrats," etc. Translated by Frances Gerard. With Special Preface by the Author.
"Full of vigour ... his touches of humour are excellent."—Morning Post.
"An interesting story."—Times.
The Green Book. (Freedom Under the Snow.) (Sixth Edition.)
By Maurus Jókai. Translated by Mrs. Waugh. With a finely engraved Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
"Brilliantly drawn ... a book to be read."—Daily Chronicle.
"Thoroughly calculated to charm the novel-reading public by its ceaseless excitement ... from first to last the interest never flags. A work of the most exciting interests and superb descriptions."—Athenæum.
Pretty Michal. (Fourth Edition.)
By Maurus Jókai. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. With a specially engraved Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
"A fascinating novel."—The Speaker.
"His workmanship is admirable, and he possesses a degree of sympathetic imagination not surpassed by any living novelist. The action of his stories is life-like, and full of movement and interest."—Westminster Gazette.
A Hungarian Nabob. (Fifth Edition.)
By Maurus Jókai. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. With a fine Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
"Full of exciting incidents and masterly studies of character."—Court Circular.
"The work of a genius."—Pall Mall Gazette.
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In Tight Places. (Third Edition.)
By Major Arthur Griffiths, Author of "Forbidden by Law," etc. 6/=
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A tale of the Great Siberian Steppe. By Marya Rodziewicz. Translated from the Polish by Count S. C. de Soissons. With a fine Photogravure Portrait of the Author. 6/=
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The Lion of Janina. (Fourth Edition.)
By Maurus Jókai. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. With a special Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
"A fascinating story—a brilliant and lurid series of pictures drawn by a great master's hand."—Daily Chronicle.
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By Maurus Jókai. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. With a fine Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
"In wealth of incident, in variety and interest of characterisation, in the richness and humour of its surprises, 'Eyes Like the Sea' ranks with the finest work of the great Hungarian romancer. All is told with delightful and touching candour."—The Spectator.
Halil the Pedlar; The White Rose. (Now ready.)
By Maurus Jókai. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. With a Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
This beautiful and picturesque tale of Oriental life reads like a chapter out of the "Arabian Nights." The heroine is a beautiful young Greek girl who escapes the gilded dishonour of the harem by feigning death and enduring torments. The scene of the story is Stambul, in the eighteenth century, and every phase of life in the great metropolis is described with singular fidelity.
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"A very graphic and realistic glimpse of Spanish life. Full of freshness and prettily told."—Aberdeen Free Press.
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The Tone King. (Third Edition.)
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The Poor Plutocrats. (As We Grow Old.) (Fourth Edition.)
By Maurus Jókai. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. With a fine Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
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The Day of Wrath. (Fifth Edition.)
By Maurus Jókai. Translated from the Hungarian by R. Nisbet Bain. With a Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
"It is wildly exciting—having once begun you cannot stop, but must go hurtling on to the end. The descriptive passages are remarkably vivid and lucid."—Black and White.
Dr. Dumany's Wife. (Fourth Edition.)
By Maurus Jókai. Translated by F. Steinitz (under the author's personal supervision). With specially engraved Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
"With kaleidoscopic rapidity, scene after scene passes before us. The novel shows us in a high degree the craft of the story-teller."—Literature.
The Nameless Castle. (Fifth Edition.)
By Maurus Jókai. Translated by S. E. Boggs (under the author's personal supervision). With a Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
"Told with infinite delicacy and charm, an enthralling romance."—The Bookman.
Debts of Honor. (Fourth Edition.)
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