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De. “What about him? Have you seen him
to-day?”

Sy. “Your son, you mean?” (Aside) “I'll send
the old fellow off into the country.” (Aloud) “I
think that he had some business in the country.”

De. “You are sure?”

Sy. “Oh, yes; I saw him go myself.”

De. “ Very good; I was afraid he might be hang-
ing about here.”

Sy. “And a pretty rage he was in!”

De. “Why so?”

Sy. “He had a regular quarrel with his brother,
in the market-place, about the singing-girl.”’

De. “You don’t say so!”

Sy. “Ah! but he had, and didn’t spare him. He
came in unexpectedly, just as the money was being
counted out. ‘O Atschinus,’ he cried, ‘to think
that you should do such shameful things, so un-
worthy of our family

De. “Did he speak like that? I could cry for
joy.” |

Sy. “He went on: ‘It is not your own money, it

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is your own self you are losing.

De. “Bless him! He is like those who have gone
before him.”

Sy. “ Hem!”

De. “Syrus, he is stocked with maxims of that
kind.”

Sy. “Ah, yes; he has a teacher at home.”