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The shortness
of the time makes the continuance of the debt in accordance with the agreement
not unlikely, but it is incredible that it should have been paid. For do you
suppose that the defendant here, a man who at the first chose to owe the money
and to pay interest on it, in order that his sister's dowry might not be
jeopardized along with the rest of her husband's property, would have paid it
when suit had already been instituted against that husband? Why, even if he had
at the first trusted him with the money, he would then at once have sought to
recover it. No, men of the jury; the supposition is, I presume, impossible.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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