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In them there is no attraction save of the flesh; and
that only for the male who, deformity aside, reckons women as
merely so much cubical content of animated matter placed by Allah
at his disposal for the satisfaction of his desires and the
procreation of children. I cannot for the life of me understand
an Englishman falling in love with a Turkish woman. But I can
quite understand him falling in love with Carlotta. The
hereditary qualities are there, though they have been forced into
the channel of sex, and become a sort of diabolical witchery
whereof I am not quite sure whether she is conscious. For all
that, I don't think she can have a soul. I have made up my mind
that she hasn't, and I don't like having my convictions
disturbed.
Until I saw her perched in the corner of the sofa, with her legs
tucked up under her, and the light playing a game of magic amid
the reds and golds and browns of her hair, while she cheerily
discoursed to us of Hamdi's villainy, I never noticed the dull
decorum of this room.


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