[The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]@TWC D-Link bookThe Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. CHAPTER VIII 24/29
I think Titian understood the look of a gentleman as well as anybody that ever lived.
The portrait of a young man holding a glove in his hand, in the Gallery of the Louvre, if any of you have seen that collection, will remind you of what I mean. -- Do I think these people know the peculiar look they have ?--I cannot say; I hope not; I am afraid they would never forgive me, if they did.
The worst of it is, the trick is catching; when one meets one of these fellows, he feels a tendency to the same manifestation.
The Professor tells me there is a muscular slip, a dependence of the platysma myoides, which is called the risorius Santorini. -- Say that once more,--exclaimed the young fellow mentioned above. The Professor says there is a little fleshy slip called Santorini's laughing muscle.
I would have it cut out of my face, if I were born with one of those constitutional grins upon it.
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