Excerpt from The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale
The story which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common in the East than formerly; either because the ladies are more circumspect than in the olden time g or because the Christianshave better luck, or less enterprize.
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