"Sir," he said, "my manservant is lying ill at my house with a stroke of paralysis, and is suffering terribly."

"Sir," the Captain went on, "I am unworthy to receive you under my roof; but only speak, and my manservant will be cured.

That was why I did not even venture to come to you myself; but speak, and let my manservant be cured.

But, if that servant should say in his heart, My lord is delaying to come, and shall begin to beat the manservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;