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| 18 | 1073 | How was it that he View more quotes about might">might think so of me? Ela, I could not speak! Then I recalled that Astrinax, now with the caravan, long ago, had arranged my purchase from Menon, on behalf of the gambling house. |
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| 18 | 1070 | The head is to be bowed before the master's will. |
| 18 | 1071 | "I would not have thought," said he, "that a slave such as you would have had friends". |
| 18 | 1072 | I did not understand his words. |
| 18 | 1073 | How was it that he might think so of me? Ela, I could not speak! Then I recalled that Astrinax, now with the caravan, long ago, had arranged my purchase from Menon, on behalf of the gambling house. |
| 18 | 1074 | I recalled both Astrinax and Menon had thought I would be a good buy for such a place, a girl willing to wheedle and smile, to pretend to emotions of excitement and enthusiasm, one who could adroitly feign dismay and sympathy, one who would ply customers with drink, urge them to remain at the tables, encourage them to recklessness in wagering, though it might lead to the loss of estates and honor, to shame, vagrancy, and destitution. |
| 18 | 1075 | But surely they must realize that I was in a collar, that I had no choice in such matters! Did they want me to do such things poorly? Such duties were easy, and silken. |
| 18 | 1076 | Did they want me to risk the fields, the laundries, the public kitchens, the stables, the mills? And I remembered the test of the candy. |