CHAPTER I - THE RADIANT HOUR-3

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She paused here, remembering that after he had gone that night she had undressed with the shivering April air streaming in the windows. Yet it seemed she had not felt the cold, warmed by the profound banalities burning in her heart. The next entry occurred a few days later: "April 24th.—I want to marry Anthony, because husbands are so often 'husbands' and I must marry a lover. "There are four general types of husbands. "(1) The husband who always wants to stay in in the evening, has no vices and works for a salary. Totally undesirable! "(2) The atavistic master whose mistress one is, to wait on his pleasure. This sort always considers every pretty woman 'shallow,' a sort of peacock with arrested development. "(3) Next comes the worshipper, the idolater of his wife and all that is his

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