The Arab odd-job boy finished his watering and silently returned to the house. Like that young Hardcastle, Freddy thought. Like Hardcastle, the gardener’s boy of Freddy’s youth, who had moved back and forth, remotely attending to things, unloquacious, unsmiling, totally unwilling to conspire in Freddy’s games.

“God sacrificed His only begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16)

extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes

Why did Constantinople get the works?