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I  thought  my  tears  would  quickly  abate;  but  unable  to  restrain  myself;  I

began to cry in great sobs。 As I wept; I could sense that each of the others was

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overe by feelings of fraternity; devastation and sorrow。 From now on; the

European style would be preeminent in Our Sultan’s workshop; the styles and

books to which we’d devoted our entire lives would slowly be forgotten—yes;

in fact; the whole venture would e to an end; and if the Erzurumis didn’t

throttle   us   and   finish   us   off;   the   Sultan’s   torturers   would   leave   us

maimed…But  as  I  cried;  sobbed  and  sighed—even  though  I  continued  to

listen to the sad patter of the rain—a part of my mind sensed that these were

not  the  things  I  was  actually  crying  about。  To  what  extent  were  the  others

aware  of  this?  I  felt  vaguely  guilty  for  my  tears;  which  were  at  once  genuine

and false。

Butterfly came up beside me; placed his arm upon my shoulder; stroked my

hair;  kissed  my  cheek  and  forted  me  with  honeyed  words。  This  show  of

friendship made me cry with even more sincerity and guilt。 I couldn’t see his

face  but;  for  some  reason;  I  incorrectly  thought  he  too  was  crying。  We  sat

down。

We  recalled  how  we’d  started  our  workshop  apprenticeships  in  the  same

year;  the  strange  sadness  of  being  torn  away  from  our  mothers  to  suddenly

begin a new life; the pain of beatings we received from the first day; the joy of

the  first  gifts  from  the  Head  Treasurer;  and  the  days  we  went  back  home;

running the whole way。 At first; only he talked while I listened sorrowfully; but

later;   when   Stork   and;   sometime   afterward;   Black—who   came   to   the

workshop for a time and left it; during our early apprenticeship years—joined

our mournful conversation; I forgot that I’d just been crying and began to talk

and laugh freely with them。

We reminisced about winter mornings when we would wake early; light the

stove in the largest room of the workshop and mop the floors with hot water。

We recalled an old “master;” may he rest in peace; who was so uninspired and

cautious that he could draw only a single leaf of a single tree during the span

of a single day and who; when he saw that we were again looking at the lush

green leaves of the springtime trees through the open window rather than at

the  leaf  he  drew;  without  striking  us;  would  chastise  us  for  the  hundredth

time: “Not out there; in here!” We recalled the wailing; which could be heard

throughout  the  entire  atelier;  of  the  scrawny  apprentice  who  walked  toward

the door; satchel in hand; having been sent back home because the intensity of

the  work  caused  one  of  his  eyes  to  wander。  Next;  we  imagined  how  we

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