HERMANN AGHA. PART II. (continued.) "BEFORE we parted it was agreed between us that Moḥarib should meet me the next day at a kaḥwah which I named in a back street of the town; and should there bring me Zahra's message. He did so. It appointed the same place and time for the morrow as the day before. And now began for me a period of happiness such as I had never known till then, nor have ever since. Though not daily,— that could not be, owing to hindrances arising sometimes from her family and her occupations, sometimes from mine, my visits at the little door with the red mark, which, by the way, I took care to dull considerably, though not wholly to efface, were frequent; and the door VOL. II. B |