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By association of ideas, the word “castrato” brings to my mind those manservants who shave their mustaches and sideburns so that they look like so many eunuchs, with faces like Franciscan friars. This ridiculous practice is the result of the perverse vanity of their masters.
For the same reason, that is, their mistresses’ vanity, maidservants scowl and complain that they do not want to wear those white caps otherwise known as bonnets. In fact, when they are no longer young or beauti