CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
A Diplomat in Spite of Himself[1]
CHAPTER II
Sir John’s Programme[24]
CHAPTER III
Life in Constantinople[33]
CHAPTER IV
The Men about the Ambassador[46]
CHAPTER V
Strenua Inertia[68]
CHAPTER VI
Sir John goes to Court[89]
CHAPTER VII
The Festivities[105]
CHAPTER VIII
Diplomacy—High and Otherwise[116]
CHAPTER IX
The Sublime Threshold[136]
CHAPTER X
Hopes deferred[147]
CHAPTER XI
From Purgatory to Pera[163]
CHAPTER XII
Halcyon Days[178]
CHAPTER XIII
The Stool of Repentance[196]
CHAPTER XIV
Kara Mustafa and the Aleppo Dollars[227]
CHAPTER XV
Interlude[246]
CHAPTER XVI
The Case of Mrs. Pentlow[266]
CHAPTER XVII
The Pilot at Rest[278]
CHAPTER XVIII
The Price of Parchment[290]
CHAPTER XIX
Sir John’s “Ticklish Condition”[301]
CHAPTER XX
A Lull in the Storm[322]
CHAPTER XXI
Release[339]
CONCLUSION[355]
APPENDICES[377]
INDEX[409]

The portraits of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines are
supplied by the Cambridge University Press by permission
of Dr. Malloch and Mr. Wilfred Finch.

“Under the Turk in Constantinople.”