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The policemen,
distributed pretty abundantly about the rooms, themselves looked
military, wearing cocked hats and swords. There were many women of the
middling classes; some, evidently, of the lowest, but clean and decent,
in colored gowns and caps; and laboring men, citizens, Sunday gentlemen,
young artists, too, no doubt looking with educated eyes at these
art-treasures, and I think, as a general thing, each man was mated with a
woman. The soldiers, however, came in pairs or little squads,
accompanied by women. I did not much like any of the French faces, and
yet I am not sure that there is not more resemblance between them and the
American physiognomy, than between the latter and the English. The women
are not pretty, but in all ranks above the lowest they have a trained
expression that supplies the place of beauty.
I was wearied to death with the drawings, and began to have that dreary
and desperate feeling which has often come upon me when the sights last
longer than my capacity for receiving them.


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