The Slave of the Desert, Sira

"I thought it merely an adventure until my master took me before his four wives and told them they could have me for a eunuch" "How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this? I pondered much afterward on what she said. Her comments were disconcerting to me, and I Pondered much afterward," he says of the first wife Sira. The slave speaks forward enough, observedMy master. If thou so desire, Sira, take this man for thy camel tender. That day I led her camel upon a long journey to her sick mother."