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LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
it seemed a thousand years ere he met again that member
of the Eight who had insulted him. And when he found
him he spake thus to him: " Do you see, Antonio, that it
was God who knew what should happen to my son, and
not you? " To which he replied: " Let us but catch him
another time." My father said: " I shall give my atten-
tion to thanking God that he has escaped this time."
LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
it seemed a thousand years ere he met again that member
of the Eight who had insulted him. And when he found
him he spake thus to him: " Do you see, Antonio, that it
was God who knew what should happen to my son, and
not you? " To which he replied: " Let us but catch him
another time." My father said: " I shall give my atten-
tion to thanking God that he has escaped this time."