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lurked a glee that she couldn’t conceal: The delight that her resentment had

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been recognized。 It was from this point of entry that your sharp…witted Esther

attempted to discover the reasons for and circumstances of Kalbiye’s anger。

It didn’t take long for Kalbiye to admit that she’d been upset with the late

Enishte Effendi due to the illustrated manuscript he was preparing。 She said

her husband; may he rest in peace; hadn’t agreed to work on the book for the

sake of a handful of extra silver coins; but because Enishte Effendi convinced

him the project was authorized by the Sultan。 However; when her late

husband became aware that the illuminations Enishte Effendi hired him to

gild were slowly evolving from simple ornamented pages into full…blown

illustrations; pictures moreover that bore the marks of Frankish blasphemy;

atheism and even heresy; he grew uneasy and began to lose sight of right and

wrong。 Being a much more reasonable and prudent person than Elegant

Effendi; she cautiously added that all these doubts arose gradually rather than

at once; and since poor Elegant Effendi never found anything that would be

considered blatant sacrilege; he was able to dismiss his worries as unfounded。

Besides; he forted himself by never missing a sermon given by Nusret Hoja

of Erzurum; and if he skipped one of his five daily prayers it unsettled him。

Just as he knew that certain scoundrels at the workshop ridiculed his plete

devotion to the faith; so he understood very well that their brazen jokes arose

out of envy of his talent and artistry。

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