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...brown earth at her moveless feet...
...hear your foot where the brown leaves...
...liquid, melting ringlets over her high and classic forehead; her eyes were wavy and dreamy in their expression; she had a fascinating little "nez retrousse," and teeth of pearly whiteness; her lips were ruddy, and appeared tempting in the soft sunlight; her hands were of a delicately shaded nut-brown tint; and, as for her figure, it was divine. Withal she was of a poetic bent, and had often written verses for the Watchman. Eighteen summers and as many winters had passed over her head. But enough of this...
...quoth the dame, "'tis a naughty place. Prithee turn back." But Lighthead, still with his burden on his back, went forward, and on the morning of the second day he reached a city duller than the grave. And Lighthead, somewhat weary, did partake of refreshment and the nut-brown ale; and asking of the carle who kept the inn, he learned that the place was hight Vanity Fair, and in it was Harvard...
...four years. And the burden of books that was upon him grew lighter as he went on; and he sought for knowledge in other ways. And he became expert in shuffling bits of pasteboard, covered with red and black spots; and he could tell the difference between the nut-brown ale of Vanity Fair and the red wine of Macon; and he no longer journeyed afoot, but in the wagon of one Shark. And Lighthead struggled often up the hill Difficulty, bristling with unfavorable conditions, but he never reached its summit; for, ere he had passed four years with...