She had thought that they just became very
simple and natural and quaint. And she had thought that when
benighted people knocked at a door it would presently open
hospitably. She had not expected shots at random from the window.
And it is not usual in Albania generally for women, whether they are
Christian or Moslem, to go about unveiled; when they do so it leads
to singular manifestations. The moral sense of the men is shocked
and staggered, and they show it in many homely ways. Small boys at
that age when feminine beauty does not yet prevail with them, pelt.
Also in Mahometan districts they pelt men who do not wear fezzes,
while occasionally Christians of the shawl-headed or skull-cap
persuasions will pelt a fez. Sketching is always a peltable or
mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down
tempts the pelter. Generally they pelt. The dogs of Albania are
numerous, big, dirty, white dogs, large and hostile, and they attack
with little hesitation. The women of Albania are secluded and
remote, and indisposed to be of service to an alien sister.
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