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would he not at
first attempt to rob and steal from his parents and deceive them?”
“Certainly.” “And if he failed in that, would
he not next seize it by force?” “I think so,”
he said. “And then, good sir, if the old man and the old woman
clung to it and resisted him, would he be careful to refrain from the acts
of a tyrant?” “I am not without my fears,” he
said, “for the parents of such a one.” “Nay,
Adeimantus, in heaven's name, do you suppose that, for the sake of a newly
found belle amie bound to him by no necessary tie, such a one would strike
the dear mother,
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