CHAPTER XIV 



SELBORNE 

 (1896) 



First impressions of faces are very much to us : 

 vivid and persistent, even long after they have 

 been judged false they will from time to time 

 return to console or mock us. It is much the 

 same with places, for these, too, an ineradicable 

 instinct will have it, are persons. Few in 

 number are the towns and villages which are 

 dear to us, whose memory is always sweet, like 

 that of one we love. Those that wake no 

 emotion, that are remembered much as we re- 

 member the faces of a crowd of shop as- 

 sistants in some emporium we are accustomed 

 to visit, are many. Still more numerous, 

 perhaps, are the places that actually leave a 



disagreeable impression on the mind. Probably 



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