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Aurora Mardiganian. Ravished Armenia (Autobiography)
Ravished Armenia (Autobiography)
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
FOREWORD
ARSHALUS—THE LIGHT OF THE MORNING. A Prologue to the Story
THE STORY OF AURORA MARDIGANIAN
CHAPTER I. WHEN THE PASHA CAME TO MY HOUSE
CHAPTER II. THE DAYS OF TERROR BEGIN
CHAPTER III. VAHBY BEY TAKES HIS CHOICE
CHAPTER IV. THE CRUEL SMILE OF KEMAL EFFENDI
CHAPTER V. THE WAYS OF THE ZAPTIEHS
CHAPTER VI. RECRUITING FOR THE HAREMS OF CONSTANTINOPLE
CHAPTER VII. MALATIA—THE CITY OF DEATH
CHAPTER VIII. IN THE HAREM OF HADJI GHAFOUR
CHAPTER IX. THE RAID ON THE MONASTERY
CHAPTER X. THE GAME OF THE SWORDS, AND DIYARBEKIR
CHAPTER XI “ISHIM YOK; KEIFIM TCHOK!”
CHAPTER XII. REUNION—AND THEN, THE SHEIKH ZILAN
CHAPTER XIII. OLD VARTABED AND THE SHEPHERD’S CALL
CHAPTER XIV. THE MESSAGE OF GENERAL ANDRANIK
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Aurora Mardiganian
OK Publishing, 2020
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Now, the other man started. He was shaken by a convulsive shudder, and his face blanched. Twenty years ago—that was when a hundred thousand of his people were massacred by Abdul Hamid! Without a word he walked to a window, separated the curtains and looked out upon the house garden.
The banker, Mardiganian, was a true type of the successful, modern Armenian business man. He did not often smile, but his voice was kind, and his eyes were gentle. In the Easter morning promenades in any avenue in Europe or America he would have been a conventional figure, passed without notice. When he turned from the window, after a moment, only a close observer could have detected in his face or manner that inexplainable, intangible something which, indelibly, marks a race cradled in oppression.
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