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“Are you a relative of hers?”

I  was  so  embarrassed  at  having  fallen  so  abruptly  and  unexpectedly  into

groveling meekness before the judge’s proxy; at having bared my life like some

dull object devoid of any mystery; that I fell pletely silent。

“Instead of turning beet red; give me an answer; young man; lest I refuse to

grant her a divorce。”

“She’s the daughter of my maternal aunt。”

“Hmmm; I see。 Will you be able to make her happy?”

When  he  asked  the  question  he  made  a  vulgar  hand  gesture。  The

miniaturist should omit this indelicacy。 It’d be enough for him to show how

much I blushed。

“I make a decent living。”

“As I belong to the Shafü sect; there is nothing contrary to the Holy Book or

my  creed  in  my  granting  the  divorce  of  this  unfortunate  Shekure;  whose

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husband has been missing at the front for four years;” said the Proxy Effendi。

“I  grant  the  divorce。  And  I  rule  that  her  husband  no  longer  has  any

superceding rights should he return。”

The  subsequent  illustration;  that  is;  the  fourth;  ought  to  depict  the  proxy

recording  the  divorce  in  the  ledger;  unleashing  obedient  armies  of  black…ink

letters; before presenting me with the document declaring that my Shekure is

now a widow and there is no obstacle to her immediate remarriage。 Neither

by painting the walls of the courtroom red; nor by situating the picture within

bloodred  borders  could  the  blissful  inner  radiance  I  felt  at  that  moment  be

expressed。 Running back through the crowd of false witnesses and other men

gathering before the judge’s door seeking divorces for their sisters; daughters

or even aunts; I set out on my return journey。

After   I   crossed   the   Bosphorus   and   headed   directly   to   the   Yakutlar

neighborhood; I dismissed both the considerate Imam Effendi; who wanted to

perform the marriage ceremony; and his brother。 Since I suspected everyone I

saw on the street of hatching some mischief out of jealousy over the incredible

happiness  I  was  on  the  verge  of  attaining;  I  ran  straight  to  Shekure’s  street。

How had the ominous crows divined the presence of a body in the house and

taken to hopping around excitedly on the terra…cotta shingles? I was overe

by  guilt  because  I  hadn’t  been  able  to  grieve  for  my  Enishte  or  even  shed  a

single  tear;  even  so;  I  knew  from  the  tightly  closed  shutters  and  door  of  the

house; from the silence; and even from the look of the pomegranate tree that

everything was proceeding as planned。

I  was  acting  intuitively  in  a  great  haste。  I  tossed  a  stone  at  the  courtyard

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