If you were cleverer and more agreeable, I should prefer yours.
Or perhaps he's being cleverer than all of us, and trying to motivate Magic Daps by faint praise.
As Sebastian became cleverer at the game, we found that it disappeared... to be discovered later stuck to the underside of his highchair!
And as it always happens in contests of cunning that a stupid person gets the better of cleverer ones, Helene--having realized that the main object of all these words and all this trouble was, after converting her to Catholicism, to obtain money from her for Jesuit institutions (as to which she received indications)-before parting with her money insisted that the various operations necessary to free her from her husband should be performed.
However, as the benefits have increased, card firms have also become cleverer at wheedling money out of customers.