Perde 3
[Textpart 3]
How now—is he going to keep her at home?
SYRUS
I believe so; such is his
DEMEA
Is it possible?
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SYRUS
An imprudent lenity in his father, and a vicious inlulgence.
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DEMEA
Really, I am ashamed and grieved at my brother.
SYRUS
Demea! Between you there is a great—I do not say it because you are here present—a too great difference. You are, every bit of you, nothing but wisdom;
he a mere dreamer. Would you indeed have suffered that son of yours to act thus?
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DEMEA
I, suffer him? Would I not have smelt it out six months before he attempted it?
SYRUS
Need I be told by you of your foresight?
DEMEA
I pray he may only continue the same he is at present!
SYRUS
Just as each person wishes his son to be, so he turns out.
DEMEA
What news of him? Have you seen him to-day?
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SYRUS
What, your son? (Aside.) I’ll pack him off into the country. (To DEMEA.) I fancy he’s busy at the farm long before this.
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DEMEA
Are you quite sure he is there?
SYRUS
What!—when I saw him part of the way myself—
DEMEA
Very good. I was afraid he might be loitering here.
SYRUS
And extremely angry too.
SYRUS
He attacked his brother in the Forum with strong language
