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for remorse, and those of us who are conscious of no wrong-doing, we most of all should offer sacrifices against our pride. You have your old common sense, Menelaos, an immediate kind of wit, but you still lack vision. If you had more vision you would be more conventional."

"If I hear you," said Menelaos, "you are advising me not to depart from established rules of conduct?"

"That is my advice," said Helen.

"I am overtired and my head refuses to serve me," said Menelaos. "Will you return to—whatever placed you have just come from, or shall I leave this tent to you? We start early in the morning."
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