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Demetra Vaka. A Child of the Orient
A Child of the Orient
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE TOKEN
CHAPTER II. ECHOES OF 1821
CHAPTER III. OTHER FACES, OTHER PHASES
CHAPTER IV. DJIMLAH
CHAPTER V. WE AND THEY
CHAPTER VI. AUNT KALLIROË
CHAPTER VII. IN THE HOLLOW OF ALLAH’S HAND
CHAPTER VIII. YILDERIM
CHAPTER IX. I AM REMINDED OF MY SONS AGAIN
CHAPTER X. THE GARDEN GODDESS
CHAPTER XI. MISDEEDS
CHAPTER XII. HOW I WAS SOLD TO ST GEORGE
CHAPTER XIII. THE MASTER OF THE FOREST
CHAPTER XIV. ALI BABA, MY CAÏQUE-TCHI
CHAPTER XV. MY LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN
CHAPTER XVI. CHAKENDÉ, THE SCORNED
CHAPTER XVII. A GREAT LADY OF STAMBOUL
CHAPTER XVIII. THE INVENTIVENESS OF SEMMEYA HANOUM
CHAPTER XIX. THE CHIVALRY OF ARIF BEY
CHAPTER XX. IN THE WAKE OF COLUMBUS
CHAPTER XXI. IN REAL AMERICA
CHAPTER XXII. BACK TO TURKEY
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Demetra Vaka
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Why, it isn’t Easter and it isn’t Christmas,” I cried. “It isn’t even a great saint’s day. Why are you burning the candles and the incense, Aunt Kalliroë?”
“They have been burning since I moved into this house, and they shall burn for thrice forty days, to cleanse it from Turkish pollution.”
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