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Upon the narrow streets of Stamboul a Turkish pasha may appear a very exalted personage, and command respect -- upon the Midway Plaisance of the great Chicago World's Fair he is quite another character, and when he speaks his little piece in English, he may be placed on a par with the itinerant coffee vender, or the dark-skinned doctor who sells the queer muffin bread of the Egyptians in the corner of Cairo Street.
"Let the heathen rage and imagine a vain thing," laughs Wycherley, as he glances back over his shoulder to see if Scutari is still shaking a fist after them. His everlasting good humor is proof against scenes of this sort -- it protects him like a coat of mail.