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"Certainly; on my word of honor"

"You know the history of the Pasha of Yanina, do you not?"

"Of Ali Tepelini? [] Oh, yes; it was in his service that otten that"

Ali Pasha, "The Lion," was born at Tepelini, an Albanian village at the foot of the Klissoura Mountains, in 1741 By diplomacy and success in arms he became almost supre aroused the enmity of the Sultan, he was proscribed and put to death by treachery in 1822, at the age of eighty--Ed

"Well, what is Haidee to Ali Tepelini?"

"Merely his daughter"

"What? the daughter of Ali Pasha?"

"Of Ali Pasha and the beautiful Vasiliki"

"And your slave?"

"Ma foi, yes"

"But how did she becoht her one day, as I was passing through the market at Constantinople"