Perhaps I am uncharitable in my judgment of those sour-looking people I told you of the other day, and of these smiling folks.

It may be that they are born with these looks, as other people are with more generally recognized deformities.

Both are bad enough, but I had rather meet three of the scowlers than one of the smilers.
-- There is another unfortunate way of looking, which is peculiar to that amiable sex we do not like to find fault with.

There are some very pretty, but, unhappily, very ill-bred women, who don't understand the law of the road with regard to handsome faces.
Nature and custom would, no doubt, agree in conceding to all males the right of at least two distinct looks at every comely female countenance, without any infraction of the rules of courtesy or the sentiment of respect.

The first look is necessary to define the person of the individual one meets so as to avoid it in passing.
Any unusual attraction detected in a first glance is a sufficient apology for a second,--not a prolonged and impertinent stare, but an appreciating homage of the eyes, such as a stranger may inoffensively yield to a passing image.