Oh no, but she says things one wouldn’t listen to for anything in the world.
Well, how much trouble do you think you have given her by your peevish words and froward acts day and night since you were a little child; and how much pain when you were ill?
But I have never yet said or done anything to cause her shame.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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