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Excerpt from Marozia
I had heard much of the Royal wanton in my wanderings. Men had told me of her as I sat sipping Turkish coffee with baggy breeched Mussulmans in the cafés in Philip popolis, where fierce eyed servants of the Sultan glare with insolent dislike at a Christian, and toy only too readily with a knife hilt on small pretext.
I had listened to her name coupled with sneers and coarse jests, as I drifted down the Bosphorus to the lazy music of the boatman's eternal chant. She was known from Morocco to Berlin, partly on account of her voluptuous beauty, partly because she had a roving eye for a well-knit man, and she never scrupled to please her eye, no matter what the cost or the consequences might be.
A man could not join a shooting or a hunt ing party in the Near East without hearing of her escapades; she was talked of around the bivouac fires as well as in cities, and when at last she fell dead in her own bed-chamber.
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