respondit ipse, quamquam esset trepidus et sternax et prae reatu balbutiret ore, caecutiret intuitu, totum quo instrui, quo delectari valerem, paginis quae intercidissent fuisse mandatum.
Unnerved though he was, and, grovelling, with tongue stammering and vision blurred through the sense of his guilt, he answered, that the words from which I might have derived such instruction and delight had been wholly committed to the pages which had disappeared on the way.
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