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However,
be it so. It is an old saying of Cato's,—“that money is balanced by
distance.” It is a very long way from the Tiber to the Caicus,—a place in
which Agamemnon himself would have lost his way, if he had not found Telephus for his guide.
However, I give up all that. You took a fancy to the town. The country delighted you. You
might have bought it.
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