unde quamquam absens facile coniecto, quo repente stupore ferietur, cum intuitu nostri dignanter admissus intellexerit se paginam meam magis otiose flagitasse quam tradere.
Hence, although I cannot be there to see, I can easily imagine the bewilderment which will suddenly strike him when he is graciously admitted out of regard for me, and finds that he is not so much the due deliverer of my letter as the man who superfluously demanded it.
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