XI.

Never say about anything, I have lost it, but say I have restored it.

Is your child dead? It has been restored. Is your wife dead? She has

been restored. Has your estate been taken from you? Has not then this

also been restored? But he who has taken it from me is a bad man. But

what is it to you, by whose hands the giver demanded it back? So long

as he may allow you, take care of it as a thing which belongs to

another, as travellers do with their inn.

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