"And I too, ever since he perished, have been without my material, having no one with whom I can speak."
A generous compliment to an old adversary.
"There was no one," says Lin Hsi Chung, "in all Chuang Tzŭ's generation who could understand him; neither is there any one now, at this late date, any more than there was then."
Kuan Chung being at the point of death, Duke Huan went to see him.
See p. [226].
"You are ill, venerable Sir," said the Duke, "really ill. You had better say to whom, in the event of your getting worse, I am to entrust the administration of the State."
"Whom does your Highness wish to choose?" enquired Kuan Chung.
"Will Pao Yü do?" asked the Duke.
Kuan Chung and Pao Yü are the "Damon and Pythias" of China.