hareemed

Updated: May 17, 2025

And he thought how marvellous was the protective vastness of the town, beneath whose shield he was free free to live different lives simultaneously, to make his own laws, to maintain indefinitely exciting and delicious secrecies. Not half a mile off were Concepcion and Queen, and his amour was as safe from them as if he had hidden it in the depths of some hareemed Asiatic city.

Arnold Bennett - The Pretty Lady