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118 here so vile that would not love his country? If any, speak, for him have I offended. I pause for a reply."



Here of course, Brutus pauses, folds his arms, and looks magnanimous. We have heard, though, of an idle and impudent schoolboy, who, at a public recitation, when he had uttered the words "I pause for a