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The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

CHAPTER VIII
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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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