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A Simpleton

CHAPTER VII
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She saw you, and said, 'Oh, what a beautiful creature!' for I heard her.

As for the old stagers, whom you admire so, their faces were all clogged with powder, the pores stopped up, the true texture of the skin abolished.

They looked downright nasty, whenever you or that young girl passed by them.

Then it was you saw to what a frightful extent women are got up in our day, even young women, and respectable women.

No, Rosa, dress can do little for you; you have beauty--real beauty." "Beauty! That passes unnoticed, unless one is well dressed." "Then what an obscure pair the Apollo Belvidere and the Venus de Medicis must be." "Oh! they are dressed--in marble." Christopher Staines stared first, then smiled.
"Well done," said he, admiringly.


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