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Cowper

CHAPTER VII
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As a general one it certainly is not expedient, because in general English women have no occasion for it.

A swarthy complexion is a rarity here; and the sex, especially since inoculation has been so much in use, have very little cause to complain that nature has not been kind to them in the article of complexion.

They may hide and spoil a good one, but they cannot, at least they hardly can, give themselves a better.

But even if they could, there is yet a tragedy in the sequel, which, should make them tremble.
"I understand that in France, though the use of rouge be general, the use of white paint is far from being so.

In England, she that uses one, commonly uses both.


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