Rosemary Sutcliff: "Esca melemparkan gulungan papirus yang ramping ke...

"Esca melemparkan gulungan papirus yang ramping ke atas dipan, dan meletakkan tangannya sendiri di atas kertas Marcus. "Aku belum melayani Centurion karena aku adalah budaknya," katanya, tanpa sadar menyelami pidato bangsanya sendiri. "Aku telah melayani Marcus, dan itu bukan pelayanan budak ... perutku akan senang ketika kita mulai di jalur perburuan ini."

--- Rosemary Sutcliff

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Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion because I was his slave," he said, dropping unconsciously into the speech of his own people. "I have served Marcus, and it was not slave-service...my stomach will be glad when we start on this hunting trail.