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Updated: May 5, 2025
For the women were braver than the men. They knew the fate of conquered Ionia: for the men only merciful death, for the women the living death of the Persian harems and indignities words may not utter. Whether Hellas forsook her or aided, Athens had chosen her fate. Xerxes might annihilate her. Conquer her he could not. Yet the early spring came back sweetly as ever.
That's the identical gang which has the immaculate gall to accuse me of defaming virtuous women the same gang which applauded Slattery for calling convents priestly harems wants me killed for expressing the hope that no more young girls will be debauched at Baylor. Brann's reply to Slattery appears in Vol.
Under his cold exterior lurked the desperate rashness of the true Oriental, ready to blaze out at any moment. "No," I said, laughing; "that would not do, either. Is it not possible to send a spy into the house? It seems to me that the thing might be done. What sort of women are they who gain access to the harems?"
And, as in Persia, Afghanistan, and Turkey, the harems form an essential feature of every Arab's household; the sensualism of the Mohammedans is as prominent here as in the Orient. The Arabs who now stood before the front door of my tembe were the donors of the good things received the day before.
There was the Sultan's body-guard in gold-laced turbans, the merchants of the bazaars in red fezzes and gowns of flowing silk, the Malay sailors in blue, the black native police in scarlet, the ladies of the harems closely veiled and cloaked, the market women in a single garment of orange, or scarlet, or purple, or of all three, and the happy, hilarious Zanzibari boys in the color God gave them.
To have a balance on the right side of the public ledger was a feat less easily accomplished in those days even than in our own. Could the duke have restrained his sovereign's reckless extravagance in buildings, parks, hunting establishments, and harems, he might have accomplished even greater miracles.
And so are enacted in David's house those tragedies which have disgraced, in every age, the harems of Eastern despots. But most significant is the fact, that those tragedies complete themselves by the sin and shame of David's one virtuous and famous son.
The harems of Constantinople and Cairo are recruited from Paris and Vienna; why not those of Teherán? The indoor costume of the Persian lady must be somewhat trying at first to those accustomed to European toilettes. The skirt, reaching only to the knee, is full and bouffé, like an opera-dancer's, the feet and legs generally bare.
"What about your mother ?" he asked her. "Is she ?" "She is dead," the girl told him, with a drop in her voice. And after a long moment of silence, "When I was so little but I remember her, oh, indeed I do ... She was French, monsieur." "Oh! And so you " "I am French-Turk," she whispered back. "That is very often so in the harems of Cairo.... She was so lovely," said the girl wistfully.
But nobody's ever been able to pin anything more culpable on him than that he keeps skimming extremely close to the limits of a large number of laws." "He's very rich, I imagine?" Trigger said thoughtfully. "Very. He'd be much richer even if it weren't for his hobby." "What's that?" "Harems. The Pluly harems rate among the most intriguing and best educated in the Hub."
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