text:  God protect the faithful from it!" Independent of the above recorded opinions on the singularity of quadrilles and waltzes the khan takes this occasion to enter into a disquisition on the inconsistency (doubly incongruous to an Oriental eye) of the ladies having their necks arms and shoulders uncovered while the men are clothed up to the chin "and not even their hands are allowed to be seen bare " and returned from the ball no doubt more lost than ever in wonder at the strange extravagances of the Feringhis