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Rh touch of art? And if nature is to be modelled, let it be by refinement, grace, and education. Again I say, I laugh at your idea of simplicity. It always puts me in mind of the heroines in novels, from Sir Walter Scott's Di Vernon downwards. In order to give an idea of beauty unspoiled by art, the heroine's hat falls off, and her hair falls down, while she looks lovely in dishevelled ringlets. Now, they quite forget two things: first, that though the hat may come off, it is by no means a necessary consequence that the hair should come down too; and, secondly, if it did, the damsel would only look an untidy fright. And your notions of simplicity in real life are just as consistent." "Do you not think," asked Mde. de Ligne, "that there are some faces which a simple style suits?"  "Agreed," replied Lady Mandeville; "but I hope you call such style only

"How beautiful," said Mr. Brande, "Is the simplicity of the ancient statues!"

"Yet they would have been," retorted Lady Mandeville, "just as natural in an uneasy or an ungraceful attitude; but the sculptor had the