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always tlie same attitude ; thus they achieve social 

 distinction ; it takes the place of a medal or the red 

 ribbon. What is a general or a famous orator com- 

 pared to a man always in the same attitude ? Simply 

 nobody, nobody knows him, everybody knows the 

 mono-attitude man, Some people make their mark 

 by invariably wearing the same short pilot coat. 

 Doubtless it has been many times renewed, still it is 

 the same coat. In winter it is thick, in summer 

 thin, but identical in cut and colour. Some people 

 sit at the same window of the reading-room at the 

 same hour every day, all the year round. This is the 

 way to become marked and famous ; winning a battle 

 is nothing to it. When it was arranged that a 

 military band should play on the Brunswick Lawns, 

 it became the fashion to stop carriages in the road 

 and listen to it. Frequently there were carriages 

 four deep, while the gale blew the music out to sea 

 and no one heard a note. Still they sat content. 



There are more handsome women in Brighton 

 than anywhere else in the world. They are so 

 common that gradually the standard of taste in the 

 mind rises, and good-looking women who would be 

 admired in other places pass by without notice. 

 Where all the flowers are roses, you do not see a rose. 

 They are all plump, not to say fat, which would be 

 rude ; very plump, and have the glow and bloom of 

 youth upon the cheeks. They do not suffer from 

 "pernicious anaemia," that evil bloodlessness which 

 London physicians are not unfrequently called upon 

 to cure, when the cheeks are white as paper and 

 have to be rosied with minute doses of arsenic. They 



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