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14 You have spoiled everything. Your silence is making them suspicious already, and the more you delay the more overwhelmingly bad news do they expect.

14 Do you think, then, that I might begin to recite to them that introduction of Homer's?

14 What one?

14 "Hearken now, ye gods, and every goddess, hearken."

14 Stuff! You have recited those opening lines often enough in your cups already. But, if you like, give up this tiresome business of poetry, and piece together any you choose of Demosthenes's orations against Philip, altering them a little. That is the way most speaking is done now, anyhow.

14 That is a good idea-a sort of abridged rhetoric or oratory made easy for the embarrassed.

15 Well, are you never going to begin?