text:  How can _they_ act licentiously in a way cognizable or proveable whom rank and usage will not permit to wander and who cannot have a temptation to wander from their own harems authorized by the institutions of their country? This last charge indeed being so intrinsically absurd is hardly of a nature to have merited any answer had it not been the one most insisted upon in England where its ludicrousness is not so apparent until the mind is recalled from the life of Christendom to that very different life which prevails in Asia