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Rh à la Turque, strong or weak, sugar or none, cool or boiling? As you please; it is ready in all ways."

"I will take it à la Turque," replied Franz.

"And you are right," said his host; "it shows you have a tendency for an Oriental life. Ah! those Orientals; they are the only men who

know how to live. As for me," he added, with one of those singular smiles which did not escape the young man, "when I have completed my affairs in Paris, I shall go and die in the East; and should you wish to see me again, you must seek me at Cairo, Bagdad, or Ispahan."

"Ma foi!" said Franz, "it would be the easiest thing in the world;