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knowledge which I possess, in order to make 
it appear to you probable, in how great a de- 
gree even beauty of person only is promoted 
by early rising !” 
‘¢ Oh, Mamma,” cried Jane, (who thought 
it a very valuable part of the effect of early 
rising, that they contributed to make little 
girls look pretty;) ‘oh, Mamma, I am 
sure that George must be convinced; but 
there is one thing which puzzles me. You 
say, that a fresh colour is a cool colour; 
and yet afresh colour is a red colour, and 
you allow that there is another red co- 
lour, which you call the flush of fever, 
and which is attended with heat, and not 
with coolness ?” 
‘The fiush of fever, and the flushes of 
anger and of shame, depend upon a similar 
arrival of the red blood in the smail vessels 
of the skin; but the cause, in those cases, is 
more or less different from what I have now 
spoken of, as I will tell you another time. 
But see, the great Bear has discovered us 
already, and is making his way to the very 
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‘“* Mamma,” interrupted Jane once more, 
