I set out with all the formality of logical disquisition, but do not promise to observe the same regularity any further than it may comport with my purpose of writing as fast as I can.
"As to the immorality of the custom, were I in France, I should see none.

On the contrary, it seems in that country to be a symptom of modest consciousness, and a tacit confession of what all know to be true, that French faces have in fact neither red nor white of their own.

This humble acknowledgment of a defect looks the more like a virtue, being found among a people not remarkable for humility.

Again, before we can prove the practice to be immoral, we must prove immorality in the design of those who use it; either that they intend a deception, or to kindle unlawful desires in the beholders.

But the French ladies, so far as their purpose comes in question, must be acquitted of both these charges.