The pacha gave me a harem--" "You have had a harem ?" said Oscar.
"Were you a pacha with _many_ tails ?" asked Mistigris.
"How is it that you don't know," replied Georges, "that only the Sultan makes pachas, and that my friend Tebelen (for we were as friendly as Bourbons) was in rebellion against the Padishah! You know, or you don't know, that the true title of the Grand Seignior is Padishah, and not Sultan or Grand Turk.

You needn't think that a harem is much of a thing; you might as well have a herd of goats.

The women are horribly stupid down there; I much prefer the grisettes of the Chaumieres at Mont-Parnasse." "They are nearer, at any rate," said the count.
"The women of the harem couldn't speak a word of French, and that language is indispensable for talking.

Ali gave me five legitimate wives and ten slaves; that's equivalent to having none at all at Janina.

In the East, you must know, it is thought very bad style to have wives and women.