Perculsus inprovisa interrogatione paulum reticuit; dein, collecto animo, respondit nequaquam decorum pudori suo legere aliquid aut evitare ex eo, cui in universum excusari mallet.
This unforeseen inquiry threw him off his balance. He was silent for a few moments; then recovered himself, and answered that it would not at all become his diffidence to select or shun any part of a burden from which he would prefer to be wholly excused.
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