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"This man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person, The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, and the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, These I used to go and visit him to see he was wise also, He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome, They and his daughters loved him all who saw him loved him, They did not love him by allowance they loved him with personal love; He drank water only the blood showed like scarlet through the clear-brown skin of his face, He was a frequent gunner and fisher he sailed his boat himself he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him; When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang, You would wish long and long to be with him you would wish to sit by him in the boat, that you and he might touch each other."
As Arthur met the clear-brown eyes fixed so curiously upon him, he stopped suddenly, and put his hand to his head as if trying to recall something; then going a step or two nearer to Harold, he said: 'Well, my little boy, what are you doing up here? 'Telling the folks which way to go, was Harold's answer. 'Who are you? Arthur continued. 'What is your name?
And Claire, of a languissante temperament, as she says; but who would know it? Eighteen, with a figure abundant as that of a woman of forty, but just beginning to fine down; holding herself as French girls learn to hold themselves so young; and with the pretty eyes of a Southern nymph, clear-brown and understanding, and a little bit wood-wild.
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