Isaw it, and told john a gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court: and now has he land and beefs. well, i'll be acquainted with him, if i return; and it shall go hard but i will make him a philosopher's two stones to me: if the young dace be a bait for the old pike, i see no reason in the law of nature but i may snap at him. let time shape, and there an end.

Which best describes why regina tells the group, “i explained to ben that perhaps you hadn’t answered his letters because you didn’t think he was offering you enough, and that the time was getting short and you could guess how much he needed you—”? to make horace feel as though he deserves a portion of the credit to reassure ben that she was telling the truth about her motives to convince ben that he has been wise to trust what she has said to pacify horace before he gets angry about what she has done mark this and return