Chapter 72

_Chrys._

insanum magnum molior negotium, metuoque ut hodie possiem emolirier. sed nunc truculento mi atque saevo usus senest; nam non conducit huic sycophantiae senem tranquillum esse ubi me aspexerit.

(_doubtfully_) It’s some wild, wild work I’ve got in hand, and what I’m afraid of is that I can’t carry it out. (_pauses_) But now I must make the old man feel fierce and savage. For it won’t suit this swindle of mine, to have him peaceful when he sets eyes on me.

versabo ego illum hodie, si vivo, probe. tam frictum ego illum reddam quam frictum est cicer. adambulabo ad ostium, ut, quando exeat, extemplo advenienti ei tabellas dem in manum.

I’ll turn him other end up to-day, handsomely, on my life, I will. I’ll see he’s roasted like a roasted pea. I’ll saunter up to the door so that when he comes out I can hand him the letter the minute he appears. (_withdraws as door opens_)

IV. 6.