| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 19 | I did not View more quotes about turn">turn my head. |
| 1 | 20 | It caused me pain to do so. |
| 1 | 21 | "Captain," I heard. |
| 1 | 22 | It was Luma, the chief scribe of my house, in her blue robe and sandals. |
| 1 | 23 | Her hair was blond and straight, tied behind her head with a ribbon of blue wool, from the bounding Hurt, dyed in the blood of the Vosk sorp. |
| 1 | 24 | She was a scrawny girl, not attractive, but with deep eyes, blue; and she was a superb scribe, in her accounting swift, incisive, accurate, brilliant; once she had been a paga slave, though a poor one; I had saved her from Surbus, a captain, who had purchased her to slay her, she not having served him to his satisfaction in the alcoves of the tavern; he would have cast her, bound, to the swift, silken urts in the canals. |
| 1 | 25 | I had dealt Surbus his death blow, but, before he had died, I had, on the urging of the woman, she moved to pity, carried him to the roof of the tavern, that he might, before his eyes closed, look once more upon the sea. |