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He patted Brinnaria and kissed her. "Run away now, little girl," he said, "and wait in the peristyle until I want you." Brinnaria, once in the rear courtyard, instantly called: "Guntello!" Her call was answered by a great brute of a slave, bigger even than her father, a gigantic Goth, pink-skinned, blue-eyed and yellow-haired.
Here and there among them, to be sure, were pink-skinned boys as fresh and sweet as the apple-blossoms under which they rode their horses, but for the most part the emigrants were dissipated, disenchanted, clinging loyally to the traditions of the older country that had discarded them, and scorning the fragrant and inexhaustible richness of the new land that had made them welcome.
There were men inside three strange men, short and oddly pink-skinned but they were gesturing now, motioning that the giant machine settle to the ground beneath.
His irreproachable nose escaped the too high curve that would have made it arrogant. And his eyes, keen and hard in movement, by simply keeping quiet under lowered brows, became charged with a curious and engaging pathos. Their pathos had appealed to the little red-haired, pink-skinned, green-eyed nurse who had worked under him in Leeds.
About half past eight they dined in a white and pink dining-room furnished in dull gray walnut, and served by a stealthy, white-haired, pink-skinned butler, chiefly remarkable because it seemed utterly impossible to get a glimpse of his eyes.
There seemed to be men present of every shade of colour under the sun, from the pink-skinned representative of some northern country, down to the blackest negro; and their costumes were as varied as they were picturesque.
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