ARDASHIR AND HAYAT AL-NUFUS.[261] (continued 1)
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Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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296. A violent temper, accompanied with voies de fait and personal violence, is by no means rare amongst Eastern princesses; and terrible tales are told in Persia concerning the daughters of Fath Ali Shah. Few men and no woman can resist the temptations of absolute command. The daughter of a certain Dictator all-powerful in the Argentine Republic was once seen on horseback with a white bridle of peculiar leather; it was made of the skin of a man who had boasted of her favours. The slave-girls suffer first from these masterful young persons and then it is the turn of the eunuchry.
297. A neat touch; she was too thoroughbred to care for herself first.
298. Here the ground or earth is really kissed.
299. Corresponding with our phrase, “His heart was in his mouth.”
300. Very artful is the contrast of the love-lorn Princess’s humility with her furious behaviour, in the pride of her purity, while she was yet a virginette and fancy free.
301. Arab. “Suhbat-hu” lit. = in company with him, a popular idiom in Egypt and Syria. It often occurs in the Bresl. Edit.