When we examine a minute object, we naturally contract, not only our foreheads, but all our dimensions.

If I see two men wrestling, I wrestle too, with my limbs and features.

When a country-fellow comes upon the stage, you will see twenty faces in the boxes putting on the bumpkin expression.

There is no need of multiplying instances to reach this generalization; every person and thing we look upon puts its special mark upon us.

If this is repeated often enough, we get a permanent resemblance to it, or, at least, a fixed aspect which we took from it.
Husband and wife come to look alike at last, as has often been noticed.
It is a common saying of a jockey, that he is "all horse"; and I have often fancied that milkmen get a stiff, upright carriage, and an angular movement of the arm, that remind one of a pump and the working of its handle.
All this came in by accident, just because I happened to mention that the Little Gentleman found that Iris had been looking at him with her soul in her eyes, when his glance rested on her after wandering round the company.