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- This Sultan ... was the handsomest, most attractive young man who ever won an odalisque’s heart. He was tall, active, with large, soft eyes, a fine aquiline nose, dark, oval face, and a short, black beard. His expression was at once noble and melancholy. A white haïk [cloak] enveloped him from head to foot . . . the large and entirely white horse he rode had green housings, and the stirrups were of gold. All this whiteness and the long, full cloak lent him something of a sacerdotal air. ... His graceful bearing, his expression, half-melancholy, half-smiling; his subdued, even voice, sounding like the murmur of a brook; in short his entire appearance and manner had a something [ sic ] ingenuous and feminine, and yet, at the same time, a solemnity that aroused instinctive admiration as well as profound respect. (en)
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