[250] Of the nobles.
[251] This is the passage become famous in the imaginary form: "That mine adversary had written a book!" (xxxi. 35).
[252] Daylight is hostile to criminals, and the manner in which it operates is here compared to a tossing of them off the outspread carpet of the earth.
[253] On a carpet, to which the earth is still compared.
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