The police would not interfere, and I could not enter the house.
The next day there was a funeral from that house, and she was carried off and buried in the most hasty and unfeeling manner.

Sometimes it happens that the woman is strong enough to defend herself, and conquers a peace; but ordinarily when you hear a scream in the Moslem quarter of the city and ask the reason, it will be said to you with an indifferent shrug of the shoulder, "that is only some man beating his wife." That thirty-eighth verse of Sura iv.

is one of the many proofs that the Koran is not the book of God, because it violates the law of love.
"Husbands love your wives," is a precept of the Gospel and not of the Koran.

Yet it is a sad fact that the nominal Christians of this dark land are not much better in this respect than their Moslem neighbors.
The Greeks, Maronites and Papal Greeks beat their wives on the slightest provocation.

In the more enlightened towns and cities this custom is "going out of fashion," though still often resorted to in fits of passion.