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and you asked me his name, but made no 

 further remark, or enquiry. I, who have 

 often seen him, know that he is as ugly, 

 if not uglier, than the other; a squat 

 figure; a complexion like tallow ; an un- 

 meaning, pudding face, the marks of the 

 small-pox appearing all over it, like bits 

 of suet through the skin of a real pudding : 

 a nose like a potatoe; and dull, heavy, 

 oyster-like eyes, just suited to his face and 

 person. A figure of this kind, dressed, as 

 he was, in a common coat and waistcoat, 

 and a common sort of wig, excites little or 

 no attention ; and if you do happen to 

 look at it, makes you turn away with mere 

 disgust. Such ugliness, therefore, neither 

 painters, nor others, pay any attention to ; 

 but the painter, from having observed ma- 

 ny strongly marked peculiarities and ef- 

 fects, which, in the human species, though 

 mixed with ugliness, attract in some de- 

 gree the notice of all beholders, is led to 

 remark similar peculiarities and effects in 

 inanimate, and consequently less interest- 

 ing objects ; while those persons, who have 



