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"& fortune; she was in general esteemed a"
"pretty Woman, but I never thought her"
"very handsome, for my part." She had too"
"high a forehead, Her eyes were too small &"
"she had too much colour."

"How can that be?" interrupted Miſs Johnson reddening with anger; "Do you think that"
"any one can have too much colour?"
"Indeed I do, & I'll tell you why I do my dear"
"Alice; when a person has too great a degree"
"of red in their Complexion, it gives their"
"face in my opinion, too red a look."much colour."

"But can a face my Lady have too red"
"a look."?