[161] A beautiful letter, is it not, gentlemen? One for which you could not have been too grateful,—if only it had been true! But in fact he wrote it to deceive, when he had no expectation of an armistice; but when he had got his armistice,—read what he did then.
(Another Letter is read.)
So, after the gentleman who undertook to recover our lost fortresses had passed the straits, the governor of Crithote informs us that our remaining possessions are in greater danger than ever.—Show me another letter, and then read a bit of it.
(Another Letter is read.)
Read a passage from another.
(Another Letter is read.)
Against Aristocrates. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1935.
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