Nurse: My child, I can as little praise thy previous sinful excesses,
committed against the Trojan captive, as thy present exaggerated terror.
Thy husband will never listen to a barbarian's weak pleading and reject
his marriage with thee for this. For thou wast no captive from Troy
whom he wedded, but the daughter of a gallant sire, with a rich dower,
from a city too of no mean prosperity. Nor will thy father forsake
thee, as thou dreadest, and allow thee to be cast out from this house.
Nay, enter now, nor show thyself before the palace, lest the sight
of thee there bring reproach upon thee, my daughter. (The Nurse departs
as Orestes and his attendants enter.)
Leader: Lo! a stranger of foreign appearance from some other land
comes hurrying towards us.
Orestes: Women of this foreign land! is this the home, the palace
of Achilles' son?
Leader: Thou hast it; but who art thou to ask such a question?
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