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Osmin took to selling pastilles for a livelihood, and the lady got employment as dame de comptoir in a coffeehouse. As to the dey, he had left Naples with the intention of going to England, in which country, as he had been informed, a man is at liberty to sell his wife, if he may not drown her. He was taken ill, however, on the road, and obliged to stop at Leghorn, where he died."
SELIM: It is because the general laws of nature have brought about some accidents which have made monsters to be born; but generally man is provided with everything that is necessary to him in order to live in society. OSMIN: Are there notions common to all men which serve to make them live in society? SELIM: Yes.
This sect is therefore only like the positive laws that change according to time and place, like the fashions, like the opinions of the natural philosophers which follow one after the other. The Mussulman sect could not be essentially necessary to mankind. OSMIN: But since it exists, God has permitted it?
"'That as this pipe belongs to me, as I have bought it and paid for it, I may break it to atoms if I choose, and nobody has a right to object. So saying, the pacha broke his pipe, and threw the fragments into the middle of the room. "'All very well, as far as a pipe goes, said the minister; 'but Osmin, but Zaida? "'Less than a pipe, said the dey gravely. "'How! less than a pipe!
SELIM: Is it not a great deal to recognize people who deceive you, and the gross and dangerous errors which they retail to you? OSMIN: I should have ground for complaint against a doctor who showed me all the harmful plants, and who did not show me one salutary plant.
Belmont, Constanze's lover, has traced her to the Pasha's country house with the assistance of Pedrillo, a former servant of his own, now the Pasha's slave and chief gardener. Belmont's attempts to enter the house are frustrated by Osmin, the surly major-domo. At last, however, through the good offices of Pedrillo, he contrives to gain admission in the character of an architect.
Nevertheless, I must make one condition. Before your departure, you will swear by the Prophet, that no harm shall be done to Osmin or Zaida. "'Osmin and Zaida belong to me, and I shall do what I please with them. "'Then your highness will be pleased to deliver them over to me, to be punished according to the laws of the country; and, until you do so, you will not be allowed to leave Naples.
SELIM: I think so, or at least I suspect it; there are people who think otherwise; I do not understand them; maybe they are right. I am afraid of disputes on this subject. OSMIN: It is also of another necessary that I want to talk to you. SELIM: What! of what is necessary to an honest man that he may live? of the misfortune to which one is reduced when one lacks the necessary?
The Queen being pregnant, public prayers were offered up for her according to custom, and her Majesty was forever saying: "My pregnancy this time is different from preceding ones. I am a prey to nausea and strange whims; I have never felt like this before. If, for propriety's sake, I did not restrain myself, I should now dearly like to be turning somersaults on the carpet, like little Osmin.
Belmont gets off safely with Constanze, but Pedrillo and Blondchen are seen by Osmin before they are clear of the house. The hue and cry is raised, and both couples are caught and brought back. They are all condemned to death, but the soft-hearted Pasha is so much overcome by their fidelity and self-sacrifice that he pardons them and sends them away in happiness.
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