G. F. Abbott — Under the Turk in Constantinople

G. F. Abbott
Under the Turk in Constantinople
CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
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A Diplomat in Spite of Himself	1
CHAPTER II
Sir John’s Programme	24
CHAPTER III
Life in Constantinople	33
CHAPTER IV
The Men about the Ambassador	46
CHAPTER V
Strenua Inertia	68
CHAPTER VI
Sir John goes to Court	89
CHAPTER VII
The Festivities	105
CHAPTER VIII
Diplomacy—High and Otherwise	116
CHAPTER IX
The Sublime Threshold	136
CHAPTER X
Hopes deferred	147
CHAPTER XI
From Purgatory to Pera	163
CHAPTER XII
Halcyon Days	178
CHAPTER XIII
The Stool of Repentance	196
CHAPTER XIV
Kara Mustafa and the Aleppo Dollars	227
CHAPTER XV
Interlude	246
CHAPTER XVI
The Case of Mrs. Pentlow	266
CHAPTER XVII
The Pilot at Rest	278
CHAPTER XVIII
The Price of Parchment	290
CHAPTER XIX
Sir John’s “Ticklish Condition”	301
CHAPTER XX
A Lull in the Storm	322
CHAPTER XXI
Release	339

CONCLUSION	355

APPENDICES	377

INDEX	409

The portraits of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines are
supplied by the Cambridge University Press by permission
of Dr. Malloch and Mr. Wilfred Finch.

“Under the Turk in Constantinople.”

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