You grow continually worse. I do not say that you are a bad man,
but you are of such sort that you have ceased to please me or
anybody. I could read you a long lesson on your ways of living,
but they would be idle words, like all the rest that I have wasted
on you. To cut the matter short, I will tell you for a certain
truth that you have nothing in the world. What you spend and your
house-room I give you, and have given you these many years, for
the love of God, believing you to be my brother like the rest.
Now, I am sure that you are not my brother, else you would not
threaten my father. Nay, you are a beast; and as a beast I mean to
treat you. Know that he who sees his father threatened or roughly
handled is bound to risk his own life in this cause. Enough, I
tell you that you have nothing in the world; and if I hear the
least thing about your goings on, I will come post-haste and show
you your error, and teach you to waste your substance and set fire
to houses and farms you have not earned. Indeed, you are not where
you think yourself to be. If I come, I will open your eyes to what
will make you weep hot tears, and let you know on what false
grounds you found your pride.
"I have something else to say to you which I have not said before.
If you will endeavour to live rightly, and to honour and revere
your father, I will help you like the rest, and make you able
shortly to open a good shop.
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