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John's "radiant blondeur," his yellow beard, pink face, and sea-blue eyes, lighted up, more radiant still, with subcutaneous laughter. "The shops were shut," he said. "I arrived after closing time." But something in his tone rendered this grim announcement nugatory. Annunziata drew a long breath, and looked up again.
It is fearfully easy to develop a taste for that kind of thing. As he grew older, the taste took root and became a habit. Ted came out after serving his term, still handsome, spite of all that story-writers may have taught to the contrary. But we'll make this concession to the old tradition. There was a difference. His radiant blondeur was dimmed in some intangible, elusive way.
But all the while, in her interior mind, she was busy with the man before her. "He looks," she considered, "tall as he is, and with his radiant blondeur with the gold in his hair and beard, and the sea-blue in his eyes he looks like a hero out of some old Norse saga. He looks like-what's his name? like Odin. I must really compel him to explain himself."
"It is all very beautiful, of course, the way the town piles itself up against the hillside, the pink and yellow and lilac blondeur of the houses, the olive gardens, the radiant sky overhead, it is all very picturesque and beautiful. But I am not hungry for beauty at least, for this beauty. If you were here with me, ah, then indeed! But you are not here, and I am hungry for Craford.
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