Chapter IV: OF HIS INGENUITY IN RESCUING HIS MASTER'S MONEY FROM THE TURCOMAN, AND OF HIS DETERMINATION TO KEEP IT.

She was not a person to excite sensations of a tender nature in a novice like me; for, in the first place, she was of an unwieldy size (so different from the slim forms that we are taught to prize in Persia that I looked upon her with disgust: and, in the next, I lived in such terror of Aslan Sultan, that had I aspired to her favour, it must have been in the constant dread of the loss of my ears