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Everything depends on the point of view and is rich in varying aspects. A picture is sublime from one corner of the room, a daub from another; a woman's full face may be perfect, her profile a disappointment; above all, what you admire in yourself becomes highly distasteful in your neighbor. The moral is, I suppose, Tolerance; or if not that, something else which has escaped me.
When the duchess said that "it" -- by which she meant the whole position of affairs -- was "fun," I laughed; on the other hand, Gustave de Berensac, after one astonished stare, walked to the hall door.