GOSSIP IN THE MARKET-PIvACE : SOFIA. BUI.GARIA 



from the fanciful, sentimental, and 

 weaker-nerved girls of some other na- 

 tionalities. Sometimes a roughness ac- 

 companied this greater strength, and a 

 Bulgarian hovden was much more com- 

 mon than a Turkish hoyden. The Greek 

 girls stood somewhere between Turks 

 and Bulgarians in the quality of breezi- 

 ness. 



In Constantinople College, despite these 

 racial and historical causes for friction, 

 there has been a surprising amount of 

 harmony between the Bulgarians and 



Greeks, and even one or two good friend- 

 ships. But the feeling, so deep in their 

 nature, would occasionally find exercise, 

 sometimes rather amusingly. For in- 

 stance, when Greek Chrysanthe accused 

 Bulgarian Blogoya of having burned the 

 Alexandrian library some thirteen cen- 

 turies before, it seemed rather an ancient 

 grudge. But when Antigone and Thalia, 

 who had lived peaceably among Bul- 

 garian friends in Philipopolis, were 

 driven from their home by an anti-Greek 

 uprising a few years ago, it is not strange 



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