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As the train gains the higher altitudes, this impression is all the more vivid. There are no towns, no villages nothing but a few scattered huts, in which the Pamirian lives a solitary existence with his family, his horses, his herds of yaks, or "koutars," which are cattle with horses' tails, his diminutive sheep, his thick-haired goats.
Oyvind watched Marit dancing with the thick-haired man; she laughed over the man's shoulder and her white teeth glistened. Oyvind felt a strange, sharp pain in his heart for the first time in his life. He looked longer and longer at her, but however it might be, it seemed to him that Marit was now a young maiden.
So far as Leonard could see, there was not a man among them who stood less than six feet in height, and they were broad in proportion hugely made. In appearance they were neither handsome nor repulsive, but solemn-looking, large-eyed, thick-haired between black and yellow in hue and wearing an expression of dreadful calm, like the calm of an archaic statue.
Blessed be its memories for ever and ever! and Jessie, and De Witt, and May, and Edith, and Frank, and the baby, and all the visitors, old and young, thick-haired and bald-headed, say Amen!
But sometimes Pupasse took it into her head to plait it in two braids, as none but the thick-haired ventured to wear it. As the little girls said, it was a petition to Heaven for "eau Quinquina." When Marcelite, the hair-dresser, came at her regular periods to visit the hair of the boarders, she would make an effort with Pupasse, plaiting her hundred hairs in a ten-strand braid.
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