19/55 Of course you must have the sport which all young blood needs. But your extravagance goes beyond all bounds. I call myself a rich man, but to leave you half my fortune, dividing with your older brother Cnaeus, who is a far steadier and saner man than you, would be to assure myself that Greek parasites and low women would riot through that part of my estate in a twelvemonth. You must reform, Lucius; you must reform." This was getting extremely disagreeable in spite of his expectations, and the young man yawned a second time, then answered:-- "Well, I presume Uncle Cato has told you all kinds of stories; but they aren't at all true. I really never had a great deal of money." "Lucius," went on his father, "you are grown to manhood. |