Miss Beauchamp's War in Salonika, item 23

• March 14, 2018 12:53:18 Jessica Adkins

  4.

  the balcony to  view the true moonlight and the breeze wind. 

  A white washed spacious room hung with a few

   rues and delicate embroideries, with a dark wood w low 

  wooden ceiling supported near the centre by one square

  wooden pillar; candles in hanging parchment

  lanterns give out? scarce? a mellow light which is reflected in 

  brass and copper trays and dishes ^of brass & copper. A case of
  

  books, an old brazier full of glowing charcoal, and 

  two divans complete the furniture of the room,

  once the harem of a favoured wife - now the

  home of a woman of another race, a race

  whose women are free to ^work and roam the world as

  they please will, free too, if should they please, to revel

  in seclusion & pleace, when the work and 

  the wandering are for the moment, suspended. done? 

  Is this all? There should be more.

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