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( A solan do , 1889.) Three court ladies make “Trial of all who judged best In esteeming the love of a man.” An abbé sits to decide the wager and say who was to be considered the best Cupid catcher. First, the Duche e maintains that it is the man who holds none above his lady-love save his God and his king. The Marquise does not care for saint and loyalist, so much as a man of pure thoughts and fine deeds who can play the paladin. The Comte e chooses any wretch, any poor outcast, who would look to her as his sole saviour, and stretch his arms to her as love’s ultimate goal. The abbé had to reflect awhile. He took a pinch of snuff to clear his brain, and then, after deliberation, said— “The love which to one, and one only, has reference, Seems terribly like what perhaps gains God’s preference.”