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Marie-Aime deplored its not being to-day at its best; she described it by touches, when finest.

The blur being to-day shrunken to half its size, I subtracted one from two, and asked you where she was.

And so the gods (being to-day in a strictly artistic mood) prompted her to mind her own business.

Tell me plainly, monsieur—tell me without disguise—what I am to-day, and what you aim at my being to-morrow.

He is one being to-day, another to-morrow, as if he were simply the sport of influences or circumstances.