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In the New York State Prisons, as examined a few years ago, more than three fourths of the convicts had either received no education or a very imperfect one. Out of 842 at Sing Sing, 289 could not read or write, and only 42 less than 1 in 20 had received a good common school education. Auburn prison presents similar statistics.
He was a man between fifty and sixty, but still aiming at the appearance of youth. His dress evinced military pretensions; consisting of a blue coat, buttoned up to the chin, a black stock, loose trousers of the fashion called Cossacks, and brass spurs. He wore a wig, of great luxuriance in curl and rich auburn in hue; with large whiskers of the same colour slightly tinged with grey at the roots.
"Phyllis's hair is not red, but dark auburn," said Bernard, in a tone like offence. "I never saw Phyllis," said dark-browed Dolores, "but I have heard the aunts talk over the source of the the fair variety, and trace it to the Merrifields.
Still strangely confused, Sydney made commonplace apologies and asked leave to go out and walk in the park. Hearing this, Kitty declared that where her governess went she would go too. Mrs. Linley smoothed her daughter's pretty auburn hair, and said, playfully: "I think I ought to be jealous."
Holder's been telling me about a rather unusual woman in that apartment house just above Fourteenth Street, on the south side of Dalton." "I think I know her by sight," Sally corrected herself. She appealed. to Holder. "Red hair, and lots of it I suppose a man would call it auburn. She must have been something of a beauty, once." The rector assented, in some astonishment.
In three words, then, he had all his father's vices multiplied tenfold, and not one of his good qualities, such as they were; his hair was of that nondescript color which partakes at once of the red, the fair, and the auburn; it was a bad dirty dun, but harmonized with his complexion to a miracle.
It is a plea for the life of a brutalized negro who butchered a whole family under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. The deed was without excuse or palliation, save in the insanity of the perpetrator, of which Seward became convinced, and volunteered as counsel amid the surprise, imprecations, and threats of the Auburn community, where the case was at issue.
She merely concealed the fact that white hairs were beginning to grow on her head at an age when many simple people, who don't care particularly what they look like sensible clergymen's wives in the provinces, and others unknown to fashion remain as brown as a berry, or as pleasantly auburn as the rind of a chestnut. The knowledge of those hidden white hairs haunted her.
"Do you recognize these locks?" said Brandon, in a hollow voice; and from under the letters he drew some ringlets of an auburn hue, and pushed them with an averted face towards Mauleverer. The earl took them up, regarded them for a few moments, changed colour, but shook his head with a negative gesture, as he laid them once more on the table.
It was a splendid figure of a lass, tall and vigorous, with the sort of hair that in polite circles is called auburn, and that flaming colour in the cheeks which is Nature's recompense to people who live where it rains all the time. She was the first beautiful sight Hal had seen since he had come up the canyon, and it was only natural that he should be interested.
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