Anastasius, Or, Memoirs of a Greek; Written At the Close of the 18th Century .. 1
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145 makes the master himself ashamed of his petitioner. The rich are ever ready to accuse the poor of want- ing proper respect, when they offend the fastidious eye of pride by the display of their wretchedness. The utmost I could do, however, was to arrange my rags gracefully ; and — repeating to myself, as I strutted along, that a man's innate dignity of mien and manners were a sufficient passport even to the presence of a king — I boldly went to the Fanar, and with the least possible tremor k...nocked at Ma- vroyeni's door. It certainly opened at my summons, but not to let me enter. The porter who answered, holding it cautiously ajar, contrived to fill the whole aperture with his own person, until he had most leisurely surveyed mine. While thus examined, I recognised in my surveyor an old acquaintance. So it seems he did in me ; for when I asked to see his master, he banged the door in my face, without a syllable of reply. It was just what I myself had done a dozen times, when with Mavroyeni at Argos.
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