Her hand roamed freely over every part of my body, but I had to stop half-way down hers.

She cursed the man who had packed the bale for not having made it half a foot bigger, so as to get nearer to me.

Very likely even that would not have satisfied us, but she would have felt happier.
Our pleasures were barren, yet we kept up our enjoyment until the first streak of light.

I put back the plank carefully, and I lay down in my bed in great need of recruiting my strength.
My dear mistress had informed me that the Turkish Bairam began that very morning, and would last three days during which it would be impossible for her to see me.
The night after Bairam, she did not fail to make her appearance, and, saying that she could not be happy without me, she told me that, as she was a Christian woman, I could buy her, if I waited for her after leaving the lazzaretto.

I was compelled to tell her that I did not possess the means of doing so, and my confession made her sigh.