I want to find someone who'll believe the lies I tell him without expecting me to believe the truth he tries to foist on me.
I want to find a man as tricky with his brains as I am with my hands.
He must be a politician and a spy, because I love excitement.

That's why I called you a spy.

If you were one, you might have admitted it, and then we could have been friends, like two yolks in one eggshell.
But I see you're only a shell without a yolk in it.

Who cleaned you ?" "How long have you been in the service of Ramsden effendi ?" Yussuf Dakmar asked him.
"Not long, and I am tired of it.

He is strong, and his fist is heavy.
When he gets drunk he is difficult to carry upstairs to bed, and if I am also drunk the feat is still more difficult.