Your sons may make free to take their pleasure among the wives of the heathen; it only remains to be proved whether the heathen husbands will be trifled with or not.

So far as I am concerned, I am inclined for anything rather than jesting.

I would have you to understand that I will never let Caesar's uniform, which I wear, be stained by disgrace, and that I am minded to search your house, and if I find my undutiful wife and your son within its walls, I will carry them and you before the judge, and sue for my rights." "You will seek in vain," replied Petrus, commanding himself with difficulty.

"My word is yea or nay, and I repeat once more no, we harbor neither her nor him.

As for Dorothea and myself--neither of us is inclined to interfere in your concerns, but neither will we permit another--be he whom he may--to interfere in ours.