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Sandra Belloni

CHAPTER XI
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Unhappily the hat does not forewarn: it is simply indicative.

I believe, nevertheless, that science might set to work upon it forthwith, and found a system.

When you mark men drinking who wear their hats, and those hats are seen gradually beginning to hang on the backs of their heads, as from pegs, in the fashion of a fez, the bald projection of forehead looks jolly and frank: distrust that sign: the may-fly of the soul is then about to be gobbled up by the chub of the passions.

A hat worn fez-fashion is a dangerous hat.

A hat on the brows shows a man who can take more, but thinks he will go home instead, and does so, peaceably.


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