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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! DEMEA
O, what's your name? 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. GETA
You are kind, sir, to think so. DEMEA
aside. Getting on by degrees--I'll first make the lower classes my own.
The Comedies of Terence. Henry Thomas Riley. Ney York. Harper and Brothers. 1874.
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