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[Textpart 7]
I think they deserve it. What say you, Aeschinus, as to this plan ?
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AESCHINUS
I quite agree to it.
DEMEA
It is much more proper than that she, being sick and lying-in, should be brought hither through the street.
AESCHINUS
Why, my dear father, I never did see any thing better contrived.
DEMEA
It’s my way; but see, here’s Micio coming out.
[Textpart 8]
Does my brother order it? Where is he? (To DEMEA.) Is this your order, Demea?
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DEMEA
Certainly, I do order it, and in this matter, and in every thing else, wish especially to make this family one with ourselves, to oblige, serve, and unite them.
AESCHINUS
Father, pray let it be so.
MICIO
I do not oppose it.
DEMEA
On the contrary, i’ faith, it is what we ought to do:
in the first place, she is the mother of his wife (pointing to AESCHINUS).
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MICIO
She is. What then?
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DEMEA
An honest and respectable woman.
DEMEA
Through her years, she is long past child-bearing; there is no one to take care of her; she is a lone woman.
MICIO
What can be his meaning ?
DEMEA
It is right you should marry her; and that you, Aeschinus, should use your endeavors to effect it.
MICIO
I, marry her, indeed ?
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