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WHEN THE GREEN ROSES CAME
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To
Trevor Johns
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THERE are only two people in this story: Zuleika, a large, indeed massive, Jewess from Bucharest, and a rather elderly English diamond merchant with a slight body and a white moustache.
For some odd reason—largely, I think, because he was both infinitely1 courteous2 and gaily3 reckless—he attracted me, and, because I had been some considerable time in Salonika and he had only just arrived, he requested me to “show him round.” Before proceeding4 to do so, I asked him what were the three things in the world he loved most of all. He replied at once: “Animation, colour, and women.”
“Then,” said I, “my task is easy. Come with me.”
So we stepped into a gharry (we were staying at a farm a little off the road to Hortiach), and bumped down the Lembet Road, past the funny old cemetery5 on our right, and stopped importantly in the middle of that disastrously6 sordid7 square in which the Rue8 Egnatia and the road from Lembet meet.
“And that’s that,” remarked Twelves as, having stepped from the gharry, we watched it waggle away.
It was May 1913. The afternoon was late, and a cool breeze swept along the sun-strewn street. My friend had (which I have not) the carriage of a soldier, and, though I could give him at least three inches, I am confident that, in the eyes of the women we met, he appeared to tower above me. I think he was conscious of this, though he seemed to try to hide it. To him, fresh from a tedious voyage from Bahia, Venize{60}los Street was Paradise, and when we came to the Place de la Liberté, he stood and looked at the gay crowd outside Floca’s with a slow, beguiling
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