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This taste prevails alike in the harem and 
in the desert. Duperron relates that a young 
savage, wishing to attract his notice, took by 
stealth a bit of charcoal, which she reduced to 
powder in a corner, rubbed her cheeks with it, 
and then came back with a look of triumph, as 
if this application had rendered her beauty irre- 
sistible. 
Castellan, in his letters on Greece, thus 
describes a Greek princess, whose portrait he 
painted at Constantinople: “She was not,” he 
says, the ideal beauty I had pictured to myself. 
Her dark prominent eyes were as bright as 
diamonds, but her blackened eyelashes spoited 
their expression. Her eyebrows, jomed by a 
line of paint, gave a kind of harshness to her 
look. Her small mouth and deep-coloured lips 
might be embellished with smiles, but I never 
had the pleasure to see them. Her cheeks were 
covered with a very dark rouge, and her face 
was disfigured by crescent-shaped patches, Add 
to this the lifelessness of her demeanour and 
the freezing gravity of her physiognomy, and 
you would suppose that I had been depicting 
an Italian Madonna.” 

