Nor to spare one's animals
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-— Não digo o contrário; mas confessareis que nada tambem é mais natural á quem viaja, do que poupar os seus animaes.
— I don't say otherwise; but you'll grant that nothing is more natural to a traveller, either, than to spare his animals.
Loredano presses, still smiling: I don't say otherwise; but you'll grant that nothing is more natural to a traveller, either, than to spare his animals.
The Italian turns Álvaro's own proverb back on him: if hurrying is natural, so is not hurrying — why, then, the punishing pace? The whole cat-and-mouse is here in miniature, Loredano always circling toward the real question: why has this expedition been driven so hard, so fast?
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