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In the meantime the elegant Monsieur Choisy-Hautville had been enjoying what he was certain was one of the most thrilling days of his life, for he had been burning incense before the shrine of beauty, and the lights upon the altar there were the flower-blue eyes of the pretty Angela Lendon.
Now it is one of the great mysteries of life why perfectly sane and well-balanced individuals should suddenly one day come to conceive that some number of the opposite sex fulfils all the requirements of absolute perfection and delight.