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| 15 | 267 | View more quotes about poor">Poor, scrawny, plain Luma, thought I, in her tunic of scribe's cloth, and collar! What a poor excuse for a paga slave she had been! Yet she had a brilliant mind for the accounts and business of a great house, and had much increased my fortunes. |
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| 15 | 264 | "Drink!" I cried. |
| 15 | 265 | And again goblets were lifted and clashed. |
| 15 | 266 | I looked down the long table, and, far to my right, sitting alone at the end of the long bench behind the table, was Luma, my slave and chief scribe. |
| 15 | 267 | Poor, scrawny, plain Luma, thought I, in her tunic of scribe's cloth, and collar! What a poor excuse for a paga slave she had been! Yet she had a brilliant mind for the accounts and business of a great house, and had much increased my fortunes. |
| 15 | 268 | So indebted to her was I that I had, this night, permitted her to sit at one end of the great table. |
| 15 | 269 | No free man, of course, would sit beside her. |
| 15 | 270 | Moreover, that my other scribes and retainers not be angered, I had had her put in slave bracelets, and about her neck had had fastened a chain, which was bolted into the heavy table. |