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age and neglect would operate upon her as 

 upon the house, and how simply pic- 

 turesque she would become, when "her 

 cheeks were a little furrowed and weather- 

 stained, and her teeth had got a slight in- 

 crustation." 



" No indeed," said the other, " I 

 thought of her much as you did; and I 

 was reflecting how great a conformity 

 there is between our tastes for the sex, and 

 for other objects ; though Howard, I know, 

 holds a very different opinion. Here is a 

 house and a woman, without any preten- 

 sions to beauty ; and yet many might pre- 

 fer them both, to such as had infinitely 

 more of what they, and the world, would 

 acknowledge to be regularly beautiful : 

 but then, again, deprive the woman, or 

 the house, of those qualities that belong 

 to beauty, though they will not alone 

 confer that distinction, and you will hard- 

 ly find any man fond enough of the pic- 

 turesque, to make the sort of proposition 

 you have just been making." 



" I must own," said Mr. Howard, "that 

 I do object to this kind of analogy : I do 



