The husband, an old villain, in order to marry Zena, paid three hundred thousand francs to her father and mother, so celebrated was the beauty of that beautiful creature, who was truly the most beautiful girl in all Dalmatia, Illyria, Adriatica, and other places.

In those parts they buy their wives without seeing them--" "I shall not go _there_," said Pere Leger.
"There are nights when my sleep is still illuminated by the eyes of Zena," continued Schinner.

"The husband was sixty-nine years of age, and jealous! not as a tiger, for they say of a tiger, 'jealous as a Dalmatian'; and my man was worse than A Dalmatian, one Dalmatian,--he was three and a half Dalmatians at the very least; he was an Uscoque, tricoque, archicoque in a bicoque of a paltry little place like Zara--" "Horrid fellow, and 'horrider bellow,'" put in Mistigris.
"Ha! good," said Georges, laughing.
"After being a corsair, and probably a pirate, he thought no more of spitting a Christian on his dagger than I did of spitting on the ground," continued Schinner.

"So that was how the land lay.

The old wretch had millions, and was hideous with the loss of an ear some pacha had cut off, and the want of an eye left I don't know where.