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It was a natural thing to be in love with Winsome Charteris. It seemed natural to Winsome herself. Ever since she was a little lass running to school in Keswick, with a touse of lint-white locks blowing out in the gusts that came swirling off Skiddaw, Winsome had always been conscious of a train of admirers.
"Na, na, Jess, it a' comes by natur'. I never likit a lassie afore I set my een on you," said Ebie, which, to say the least of it, was curious, considering that he had an assortment of locks of hair black, brown, and lint-white up in the bottom of his "kist" in the stable loft where he slept.
He is still the reserved luxury of the Norman. So with the leagues of upland where His Grace of Sutherland has made the Highlander give place to the hart, the "lassie wi' the lint-white locks" to the Cheviot ewe where, in short, the white Celt has been improved out of existence as remorselessly as the red man in America, and that in favor not of a superior race of men, but of feræ naturæ.
It was stained bright crimson, and Buck, staring over his shoulder, noticed that the leather surface glistened darkly ominous in the bright moonlight. Slowly the boy turned his head and looked at Stratton. His face was lint-white, and the pupils of his eyes were curiously dilated. "It's Rick's saddle," he repeated dully, and shuddered as he stared again at his blood-stained hand.
"They contain nothing save some puling sentimentality about lasses with lint-white locks, or some absurd laudations of the Barley Bree." "Hear till him, hear till him!" said the doctor, reddening with impatience. "Show me anything," said Maurice, "like the 'Cruiskeen Lawn' or the 'Jug of Punch; but who can blame them, after all?
Of her far more truly and forcibly might it have been said or sung, than of the "Lassie wi' the Lint-white Locks" "She talked, she smiled, my heart she wiled, She charmed my soul, I wat na hoo; But aye the stound, the deadly wound, Cam frae her een sae bonny blue." Phebe, by my own arrangement with Lady D , was not exposed to any intimacy with the servants, male or female.
Her head was well-shaped, and from it fell a quantity of amber-coloured hair pale "lint-white locks," which, with the almost colourless transparency of her complexion, gave a spectral air to her whole appearance.
I mildly reproached myself for such incestuous desires, but they recurred continually. I dreamed little. And I cannot remember the character of my dreams. Narcissism may have been present, for in my twelfth year I had been told that at the age of 5 and 6 I was an extraordinarily beautiful little creature with long, lint-white hair. The preferable age was from 6 to 9.
So Cuthbert descended the steep path to the ravine where dwelt the fisher folk, and came back with a girl barefooted, bareheaded, with long, streaming, lint-white locks, and the scantiest of garments, crying bitterly with fright, and almost struggling to go back.
They went their way and never a word more would Borlase answer, though Green kept at him like a running brook to change his mind and act like a sensible man and not let a piece of folly spoil his own life. But he bided dumb until they reached the home of the Greens; and there stood Cicely at the gate with the moon throwing its light upon her and making her lint-white locks like snow.
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