Perde 2
[Textpart 3]
It’s all right, father.
DEMIPHO
So I trust; but what’s the reason that your colour’s so changed? Do you feel ill at all?
CHARINUS
I know not what it is affects my spirits, father;
this last night I didn’t rest quite as well as I wished.
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DEMIPHO
As you’ve been travelling by sea, your eyes, I suppose, are at present rather unaccustomed to the shore.
CHARINUS
No doubt it is that; but it will be going off presently.
DEMIPHO
Troth, it’s for that reason you are pale; if you were prudent, you’d go home and lie down.
CHARINUS
I haven’t the leisure; I wish to attend to business on commission.
DEMIPHO
Attend to it to-morrow; the day after, attend to it.
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CHARINUS
I’ve often heard from you, father, it behoves all wise men, the first thing, to give their earliest attention to business upon commission.
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DEMIPHO
Do so, then; I have no wish to be striving against your opinion.
CHARINUS
I’m all right, if, indeed, his adherence to that sentiment is immoveable and lasting.
DEMIPHO
Why is it that he calls himself aside into counsel with himself?
I’m not afraid now lest he should be able to come to know that I’m in love with her, because I’ve not as yet done anything in a foolish manner, as people in love are wont to do.
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CHARINUS
I’ faith, the affair for the present is really quite safe; for I’m quite certain that he doesn’t know anything about that mistress of mine; if he did know, his talk would have been different.
DEMIPHO
Why don’t I accost him about her?
CHARINUS
Why don’t I betake myself off hence?
(Aloud.) I’m going to deliver the commissions from my friends to their friends.
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DEMIPHO
Nay, but stop; I still want to make a few enquiries of you first.
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CHARINUS
Say what it is you wish.
