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Updated: May 17, 2025
They walked on swiftly, the one staring straight forward, yet seeing nothing; the other, although thoughtful, losing not one feature of the landscape the light-gray sky, the encircling forest, the yellow broom-straw clothing the hill-sides, the crooked fences, lined with purple brush, golden-rod, black-bearded alder and sumach, flaming with scarlet berry cones and motley leaves.
His brown hair was cropped conservatively; his unlined boy's face was not one to be remembered unless one was observant enough to note those light-gray eyes and catch a chilling, measuring expression showing now and then for an instant in their depths.
The spellbinder dexterously side-stepped; the dog's aim was diverted from that fleshy portion of the thigh which his fancy had selected; but his snapping teeth closed firmly in the tail of the pretty light-gray coat, which the little man wore rather long according to the mode of the day. And there he swung, kicking and snarling, squirming and grunting, in the liveliest fashion imaginable.
Suddenly a small dark spot appeared upon the light-gray mold, another, three, four, many, still more, the entire mole-hill suddenly was quite dark-gray. The air was filled with nothing but long, dark streaks, the leaves nodded and swayed and there rose a murmur which turned into a hissing rain was pouring down. Everything gleamed, sparkled, spluttered.
That short good-looking young man with the curly hair, the moustache and the light-gray clothes, was as certainly the man he had forbidden his house and the company of his daughter, as his own name was Owen and his dignity a judicial one! Here was an outrage! witness it ye fathers whose daughters do not always obey your high behests.
"Boys, we'll ride down the valley now and pick a place where we split to begin the drive," said Pan. "Hosses way down there look to me like they was movin' this way," observed Blinky, who had eyes like a hawk. Pan had keen eyes, too, but he did not believe his could compare with Blinky's. That worthy had the finest of all instruments of human vision clear light-gray eyes, like that of an eagle.
It was a clean walk-over from start to finish. I had the bit in my teeth, an' I went ahead like the woods afire. I driv' around to Carrie's house, dressed to kill. I had on my plug-hat, silk vest, light-gray pants, dark-blue coat, and my new patent-leather shoes. I put the old gal in by me an' away we shot.
Or the strait, light-gray trunks of the trees, where the woods have recently been laid open by a road or clearing, how curious they look, and as if surprised in undress! Next year they will begin to shoot out branches and make themselves a screen.
The trunks of trees already stripped of leafage showed their light-gray colonnades; the russet, tawny, grayish colors, artistically blended by the pale reflections of an October sun, harmonized with the vast uncultivated plain, green as stagnant water.
Presently he came slowly down stairs and greeted me. "Find him pretty well, looking better than last year. With his light-gray suit, and white hair, and fresh pink face, he made a fine picture. W. did not show the least feeling on the subject, and, I clearly saw, was absolutely undisturbed by the article.
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