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(Enter GETA, from the house of SOSTRATA.)
(Enter GETA, from the house of SOSTRATA.)
GETA
(to SOSTRATA, within.)
Mistress, I am going to see after them, that they may send for the damsel as soon as possible; but see, here’s Demea.
(Accosting him.) Save you!
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Mistress, I am going to see after them, that they may send for the damsel as soon as possible; but see, here’s Demea.
(Accosting him.) Save you!
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DEMEA
O, what’s your name?
O, what’s your name?
GETA
Geta.
Geta.
DEMEA
Geta, I have this day come to the conclusion that you are a man of very great worth, for I look upon him as an undoubtedly good servant
who has a care for his master; as I have found to be your case, Geta; and for that reason, if any opportunity should offer, I would gladly do you a service.
(Aside.) I am practicing the affable, and it succeeds very well.
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Geta, I have this day come to the conclusion that you are a man of very great worth, for I look upon him as an undoubtedly good servant
who has a care for his master; as I have found to be your case, Geta; and for that reason, if any opportunity should offer, I would gladly do you a service.
(Aside.) I am practicing the affable, and it succeeds very well.
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GETA
You are kind, sir, to think so.
You are kind, sir, to think so.
DEMEA
(aside.)
Getting on by degrees—I’ll first make the lower classes my own.
Getting on by degrees—I’ll first make the lower classes my own.
Adelphi. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), George Colman (Translator). New York. 1874.
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