adhuc rogabam, cum repente vir caritatis flere granditer coepit non moram debiti sed periculum debitoris; frenatoque singultu: absit a me, inquit, ut haec reposcam clericus ab aegro, quae vix petissem miles a sospite.
I was continuing my entreaties, when suddenly this man of charity burst into a flood of tears, not for the default in the payment of the debt but for the critical state of the debtor. Stifling a sob, he said: Far be it from me to demand as a cleric from a sick man that restitution which as a government official I should hardly have claimed from a man in health.
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