"As best I could I had answered their many questions. They were surprised when I told them that Europeans were, with minor differences, exactly like them, marrying and bringing up their children in accordance with principles and traditions, that they had good morals and were in general good people." (Chapter 1, pg. 3)

"Then he shook his head and said, 'That tribe doesn't mind to whom they marry their daughters.' However, he added, as though be way of apology, that Mustafa during his whole stay in the village had never done anything which could cause offence, that he regularly attended the mosque for Friday prayers, and that he was 'always ready to give of his labour and his means in glad times and sad' - this was the way in which my grandfather expressed himself." (Chapter 1, pg. 5)

"'Your grandfather knows the secret,' he said to me with that...