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Часть текста: perceive his distress; but he could not be silent long, because that his trouble increased; wherefore at length he brake his mind to his wife and children; and thus he began to talk to them: «O my dear wife», said he, «and you the children of my bowels, I, your dear friend, am in myself undone by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me: moreover, I am for certainly informed that this our city[3] will be burned with fire from heaven; in which fearful overthrow, both myself, with thee my wife, and you, my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin, except (the which yet[4] I see not) some way of escape may be found, whereby we may be delivered». At this his relations were sore amazed; not for that they believed what he had said to them was true, but because they thought some frenzy distemper had got into his head; therefore, it drawing towards night, and they hoping that sleep might settle his brains, with all haste they got him to bed: but the night was as troublesome to him as the day; wherefore, instead of sleeping, he spent it in sighs and tears. So when the morning was come, they would know how he did; he told them Worse and worse; he also set to talking to them again, but they began to be hardened.[5] They also thought to drive away has distemper by harsh and surly carriages to him: sometimes they would deride, sometimes they would chide, and sometimes they would ...