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`` Heavens , Sambulas , tell us the valiant deed that knit your souls together ! How has he drawn you to himself ? '' -LSB- 30 -RSB- `` Listen then , '' he answered , `` and I will tell you the whole truth . Every time I call him , morning , noon , or night , he comes to me ; never yet has he excused himself , never been too busy to attend ; and he comes at a run , he does not walk . Whatever I have bidden him do , he has always done it , and at the top of his speed . He has made all the petty captains under him the very models of industry ; he shows them , not by word but deed , what they ought to be . '' -LSB- 31 -RSB- `` And so , '' said another , `` for all these virtues you give him , I take it , the kiss of kinship ? ''