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Very young Children at a very early age do not blush, nor do they show the other signs when accompany blushing — they stare at a stranger with hard [unblinking] eyes. When an old ch [2 words illeg], & they are even this manner of known & do not think of [illeg] & there is one of [earnest] charms. That they are at the early age quite common, they thus with [illeg] them appear character or conduct.

[Expression, p. 328: "Children at a very early age do not blush; nor do they show those other signs of self-consciousness which generally accompany blushing; and it is one of their chief charms that they think nothing about what others think of them. At this early age they will stare at a stranger with a fixed gaze and unblinking eyes, as on an inanimate object, in a manner which we elders cannot imitate."

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Coleridge in 1st vol of Table Talk says if a you person stares at some hard or sensitive person people hard, it makes them her blush -- & he add "account for that he who can"! as it is a discussion on animal magnetism.

[Expression, pp. 327-8: "It is sufficient to stare hard at some persons to make them, as Coleridge remarks, blush,—"account for that he who can."23
23 In a discussion on so-called animal magnetism in 'Table Talk,' vol. i. "the slightest attempt to examine their peculiarities invariably" caused them to blush deeply."]