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swerve from it. ‘The day is vulgar,’ said he, ‘and deserves
only a closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their
minds when the zenith lights up its stars.’ And he barri-
caded himself against every one, even had it been the king
himself. This was the antiquated elegance of his day.

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