What on earth did you want to see her nose for?
She knew very well that she would have gained nothing by allowing you to see her.

You ought to have secured the essential point.
If I were young I would perhaps manage to give her a revenge, and to punish my friend Yusuf.

You have given that lovely woman a poor opinion of Italian valour.

The most reserved of Turkish women has no modesty except on her face, and, with her veil over it, she knows to a certainty that she will not blush at anything.

I am certain that your beauty keeps her face covered whenever our friend Yusuf wishes to joke with her." "She is yet a virgin." "Rather a difficult thing to admit, my good friend; but I know the daughters of Scio; they have a talent for counterfeiting virginity." Yusuf never paid me a similar compliment again, and he was quite right.
A few days after, I happened to be in the shop of an Armenian merchant, looking at some beautiful goods, when Yusuf entered the shop and praised my taste; but, although I had admired a great many things, I did not buy, because I thought they were too dear.