CHAPTER VI
AUNT KALLIROË
There is no use pretending that there
has ever existed the least sense of
fraternity between the Greeks and the
Turks. They had their quarters and we had ours.
They brought their customs and traditions from
the East, and we held fast to our own. The
two races had nothing to give each other. They
ignored us totally, and we only remembered
them to hate them and to make ready some
day to throw off their dominion.
I have never heard a good word for the Turks from such of my people as have not crossed their thresholds. It is almost unbelievable that for upward of four hundred years we should have lived side by side, ignorant of each other's history, and positively refusing to learn of each other's good qualities. With entire sincerity the Greeks daily relate to each other awful deeds of the Turks—deeds which are mere rumour and here-*say, and contain only a grain of truth, or none at all.
Each side did its best to keep the other as far away as possible. They had their resorts and
