'How do you know that the pilgrim is an Englishman?' asked their host.
'Because his servants told me so,' said Pasqualigo.
'He has got an English general for the principal officer of his
household,' said Barizy, 'which looks like blood royal; a very fine man,
who passes the whole day at the English consulate.'
'They have taken a house in the Via Dolorosa,' said Pasqualigo.
'Of Hassan Nejed?' continued Barizy of the Tower, clutching the words
out of his rival's grasp; 'Hassan asked five thousand piastres per
month, and they gave it. What think you of that?'
'He must indeed be an Englishman,' said Scheriff Effendi, taking his
pipe slowly from his mouth. There was a dead silence when he spoke; he
was much respected.
'He is very young,' said Barizy of the Tower; 'younger than the Queen,
which is one reason why he is not on the throne, for in England the
eldest always succeeds, except in moveables, and those always go to the
youngest.'
Barizy of the Tower, though he gave up to Pasqualigo in theology, partly
from delicacy, being a Jew, would yield to no man in Jerusalem in his
knowledge of law.
'If he goes on at this rate,' said the Armenian, 'he will soon spend all
his money; this place is dearer than Stamboul.
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