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Rh good fellow, what you wish to imply." And Victor answered: "Well, you are my friend. I cannot help telling you what is to your profit. Here goes. The master, Rusty, is filled with wrath against you. And he said today: 'I will kill Lively and provide a feast for all who eat meat.' Of course, I fell into deep dejection on hearing this. Now you must do what the crisis demands."

To Lively this report was like the fall of a thunderbolt, and he fell into deep dejection. Yet as Victor's words were always plausible, he grew more and more troubled, fell into a panic, and said: "Yes, the proverb is right:

Ah, me! Ah, me! What is this that has befallen me?

And again:

If one is angry, giving cause, Remove it, and the wrath will pause: But how may man propitiate A mind that harbors causeless hate?

Who does not fear the scoundrel's art, The causeless hate, the flinty heart? For ever ready venom drips Resistless from his serpent-lips.