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In the gate of the Pasha of Grosswardein, amidst the gaping throng of armed retainers there, could be seen a pale wizened Muslim idly sprawling on the threshold, apparently regardless of everything, but sometimes looking up, catlike, with half-shut, dreamy eyes, and at such times he would smile craftily to himself.
Suddenly a handsome, chivalrous youth galloped out of the gate before whom the soldiers bowed down to the earth; this was the Pasha's favourite horseman, Feriz Beg, who had just arrived from Stambul.