...on to this poor head of mine; although I'm in mean garb, still, I'm well to do, nor can an estimate of my means be formed from it. Perhaps so. Still more then I tell you: Periphanes, a merchant of Rhodes , a rich man, in the absence of my master, himself alone paid over to me, in private, a talent of silver, and trusted me, nor was he deceived in it. Perhaps so. And you, too, yourself, as well, if...