I had not been a week in my new office, when I happened to meet one evening a young Icoglan, extremely handsome and well-made. The weather was very hot; the young man had an inclination to bathe. I took the opportunity to bathe likewise. I did not know it was a crime for a Christian to be found naked in company with a young Turk.
Habia apénas ocho dias que estaba desempeñando las obligaciones de mi empleo, quando encontré una noche á un icoglan muy muchacho y muy lindo; y como hacia mucho calor, quiso el mozo bañarse, y yo tambien me metí con el en el baño, no sabiendo que era delito capital en un cristiano que le hallaran desnudo con un mancebo musulman.