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Blushing

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The Rajah Brooke "shame has rather the effect of "producing paleness, the same anger. The native "say under such feelings they feel the blood drain "from their faces." — This if confirmed & if not depending on fear.

[Darwin is here quoting from Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke's letter enclosure of 30 November 1870, in answer to Darwin's 1867 letter requesting information on local people's expressions. See Correspondence vol. 18: "Shame has rather the effect of producing paleness, the same as anger. Natives say under such feelings they feel the blood drawn from their face." Darwin quoted this in Expression, p. 319, n12: "Lastly, I must add that the Rajah Brooke has never observed the least sign of a blush with the Dyaks of Borneo; on the contrary, under circumstances which would excite a blush in us, they assert 'that they feel the blood drawn from their faces.'"]

A young lady caught her hair firmly on button of servant passing by in crowded party, & was some time before she cd be extricated. She thought she blushed intensely as she assured me, but really she turned extremely pale. —

[Expression, p. 313: "For instance, a young lady told me that in a large and crowded party she caught her hair so firmly on the button of a passing servant, that it took some time before she could be extricated; from her sensations she imagined that she had blushed crimson; but was assured by a friend that she had turned extremely pale."