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Updated: May 21, 2025
But it remained for Jefferson to do with that character what no one else had ever thought of doing to lift it above the level of the tipsy rustic and make it the poetical type of the drifting and dreaming vagrant half-haunted, half-inspired, a child of the trees and the clouds.
He was a dreamy-looking little fellow, and one may easily find his like throughout the Cumberland-paler than his fellows, from staying much indoors, with half-haunted face, and eyes that are deeply pathetic when not cunning; ignorantly credited with idiocy and uncanny powers; treated with much forbearance, some awe, and a little contempt; and suffered to do his pleasure-nothing, or much that is strange-without comment.
It appeared that they had both been about the same age as Bob Evers, and I pointed this out to my companion. It was a particularly obvious remark to make; but Mrs. Lascelles turned her face quickly to mine, and the colour left it in the half-lit, half-haunted little room, which we happened to have all to ourselves. "Don't let him go up, Captain Clephane; don't let him, please!"
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