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Slie : You, perception and honour. 



ffe : You are very intelligent. 



She : You are very clever. 



He : All these qualities combined will make a very 

 fine boy or girl, and that is why I prefer you to any 

 other woman. 



She: And that is precisely why I prefer you to 

 any other man.i 



^ The conversation of Schopenhauer's Daphnis and Chloe, re- 

 written and brought into harmony with the principles of heredity 

 and elective affinity, as set forth in the present volume. 



