Word: complexionâ
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...Complexion???Startingly white...
...graying, patriarchal. Women, to whom he was long indifferent, have come into his life as simply as food and drink?as Woman. In New Orleans, an exquisitely voluptuous Creole girl, schooled in Paris, takes him?great-bodied, red-bronze of complexion???to herself as Man. They part, still lovers, and the episode is invested with the same universality that spreads over a vast hoard of experiences and impressions he gains traveling the broad Mississippi basin by canal, river and Great Lakes, by farmlands, mountains and new cities, back to Brooklyn, to lean on the front fence sucking a twig...
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