Org. What?
Per. Good people are always subject to envy.
Org. What do you mean, mother?
Per. That you live after a strange sort here, and that I am but too well aware of the ill-will they all bear him.
Org. What has this ill-will to do with what I have just told you?
Per. I have told it you a hundred times when you were young, that in this world virtue is ever liable to persecution, and that, although the envious die, envy never dies.
Org. But what has this to do with what has happened to-day?
Per. They have concocted a hundred foolish stories against him.
Org. I have already told you that I saw it all myself.
Per. The malice of evil-disposed persons is very great.