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"And the moral of the story?" I said to Severin when I put the manuscript down on the table

"That I was a donkey," he exclai around, for he seemed to be embarrassed "If only I had beaten her!"

"A curious reht ansith your peasant-woerly, "but iine the effect upon one of our delicate, nervous, hysterical ladies--"

"But the moral?"

"That woman, as nature has created her and asher, is his enemy She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his cohts as he, and is his equal in education and work

"At present we have only the choice of being hammer or anvil, and I was the kind of donkey who let a woman make a slave of him, do you understand?

"The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped

"The blows, as you see, have agreed with me; the roseate super sensual ain that these 'sacred apes of Benares or Plato's rooster are the ie of God"

[Footnote: Bensares was one of Schopenhauer's designations for woenes threw a plucked rooster into Plato's school and exclai"]