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Show Restrained by Modesty. Lisa Cipriani, the well-known Italian writer, told at a dinner in New York an amusing story of her little brother: "Ritchie, when angered, used to say, 'I am going to run away." Then my mother would answer, 'All right, ruu away; but your clothes are mine. You came to us naked and naked you shall leave us.' "And Ritchie would plead, 'One little pair of trousers!' " 'No,' my mother would reply, 'it Is not good for you to run away, and I can't let you have even one little old pair of trousers for such a purpose.' "Ritchie would plead again, 'One little old pair of trousers!' "But his mother was firm and, thanks to her firmness, Ritchie never ran away." |