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For if my
father had no confidence in these men, it is plain that he would neither have
entrusted to them the rest of his property, nor, if he had left this money in
the way alleged, would he have told them of it. It would have been the height of
madness to tell them of hidden treasure, when he was not going to make them
trustees even of his visible property. But if he had confidence in them, he
would not, I take it, have given into their hands the bulk of his property, and
not have put them in control of this. Nor would he have entrusted this remainder
to my mother to keep, and then have given her herself in marriage to this man
who was one of the guardians. For it is not reasonable that he should seek to
secure the money through my mother, and yet to put one of the men whom he
distrusted in control both of her and of it.
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