And the consciousness of sin, the knowledge that they may at any moment fall into it, preserves them from the arrogance of goodness.' 'There may be some small grain of sense in what thou sayest,' chuckled the objector, 'but not enough to make sin righteous, nor yet to abrogate the sacred law.' Suleyman pursued unheeding: 'I have a rare thing, which will show you what I mean.
'A new judge had been appointed to the Holy City.

He was departing from Stambul by ship to take up his appointment.

On the quay, a Jew of his acquaintance came to him with reverence, and begged him kindly to convey a basket of bastirma to his (the Jew's) son at the Holy City, which the Jews in their own language call Jerusalem.

You all know what bastirma is.

It is dried and salted mutton--very tasty--a dish of which the Turks are most inordinately fond.