Fresoii Phecocity.—l have seen in the centre oftlie Faiiiiuurg St. Marshall, where I lived a loni? time, children wjtlj a charming faces. At twelve or thirteen years off), their eyes, full of sweetness, we c abwuiy bold and ardent: the agreeable little mouth hai alre;uly assume singular contours ; the neck, so round, was showing developed muscle*; the large smooth cheeks had, In-re and there, hard elevations ; they li:ul uln-ndy taken the physiognomy of the rnar-ket-piuoe. As the resu't of quarrels scoldings, beatings, crying*, and scuttling* about a farthing, th»y had contracted for their whole lives an air of sordid inten>tednoss, of impudence, and of anger.—J/. Diderot, in JSuilder.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 202, 1 August 1862, Page 5
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