Seventh Dealer And the same applies to the fees you take from your youthful pupils? None but the true believer sells virtue for a fee? Chrysippus Quite right. I take the fee in my pupil’s interest, not because I want it. The world is made up of diffusion and accumulation. I accordingly practise my pupil in the former, and myself in the latter. Seventh Dealer But it ought to be the other way. The pupil ought to accumulate, and you, ‘sole millionaire,’ ought to diffuse. Chrysippus Ha! you jest with me? Beware of the shaft of insoluble syllogism. Seventh Dealer What harm can that do? Chrysippus It cripples; it ties the tongue, and turns the brain. Chrysippus It cripples; it ties the tongue, and turns the brain. Nay, I have but to will it, and you are stone this instant. Seventh Dealer Stone! You are no Perseus, friend? Chrysippus See here. A stone is a body? Seventh Dealer Yes. Chrysippus Well, and an animal is a body? Seventh Dealer Yes. Chrysippus And you are an animal? Seventh Dealer I suppose I am. Chrysippus ‘Therefore you are a body. Therefore a stone. Seventh Dealer Mercy, in Heaven’s name! Unstone me, and let me be flesh as heretofore. Chrysippus That is soon done. Back with you into flesh! Thus: Is every body animate? Seventh Dealer No. Chrysippus Is a stone animate? Seventh Dealer No. Chrysippus Now, you are a body? Seventh Dealer Yes. Chrysippus And an animate body? Seventh Dealer Yes. Chrysippus Then being animate, you cannot be a stone. Seventh Dealer Ah! thank you, thank you. I was beginning to feel my limbs growing numb and solidifying like Niobe’s. Oh, I must have you. What’s to pay? Heraclitus Fifty pounds. Seventh Dealer Here it is. Heraclitus Are you sole purchaser? Seventh Dealer Not I. All these gentlemen here are going shares. Heraclitus A fine strapping lot of fellows, and will do the ‘Reaper’ credit.