To convince the Greeks that their orthodox empire was extinct, Mahomet ordered a mollah to ascend the bema and address a sermon to the Mussulmans, announcing that St. Sophia was now a mosque set apart for the prayers of the true believers.

" Of course, Sophia was the speaker.

You have been told how the Russians have looked forward to the day when Saint Sophia, the great mosque of the Turks, shall once more become a Christian cathedral.

Thus was Sophia deprived of the pleasure of being often near her lover, of enjoying his society, his conversation.

[Sidenote: S. Sophia is a Cathedral church of Nicosia.]

The misery to which the poor people were reduced, may perhaps palliate the shame of acceding to this extraordinary proposition; but, be this as it may, they consented to surrender up their daughter for the sum of 1,500 piastres, and Sophia was that same day conducted to the ambassador's palace.

She only said, Sophia was a little baby and did not know any better.

Formerly, St. Sophia was the theatre of this celebration, but this year the Sultan chose the Mosque of Tophaneh, which stands on the shoreprobably as being nearer to his imperial palace at Beshiktashe, on the Bosphorus.

You know her daughters: Lady Sophia is still, nay she must be, the beauty she was: