1 "I hate black things," said Mary.
2 You always read as a black's a man an a brother.
3 She was a stout woman, with very red cheeks and sharp black eyes.
4 Mary thought his black dewdrop eyes gazed at her with great curiosity.
5 He said I won't have a child dressed in black wanderin about like a lost soul, he said.
6 They were agate gray and they looked too big for his face because they had black lashes all round them.
7 Her black dress made her look yellower than ever, and her limp light hair straggled from under her black crepe hat.
8 The bird put his tiny head on one side and looked up at him with his soft bright eye which was like a black dewdrop.
9 She had on her best black dress and cap, and her collar was fastened with a large brooch with a picture of a man's face on it.
10 He began to dig again, driving his spade deep into the rich black garden soil while the robin hopped about very busily employed.
11 As she stood on the stone floor she looked a very small, odd little black figure, and she felt as small and lost and odd as she looked.
12 Martha liked to talk, and the strange child who had lived in India, and been waited upon by "blacks," was novelty enough to attract her.
13 She could see that the man in the chair was not so much a hunchback as a man with high, rather crooked shoulders, and he had black hair streaked with white.
14 She wore a very purple dress, a black silk mantle with jet fringe on it and a black bonnet with purple velvet flowers which stuck up and trembled when she moved her head.
15 Mary felt as if the drive would never come to an end and that the wide, bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean through which she was passing on a strip of dry land.
16 She had bright hair tied up with a blue ribbon and her gay, lovely eyes were exactly like Colin's unhappy ones, agate gray and looking twice as big as they really were because of the black lashes all round them.
17 In the evening they had all sat round the fire, and Martha and her mother had sewed patches on torn clothes and mended stockings and Martha had told them about the little girl who had come from India and who had been waited on all her life by what Martha called "blacks" until she didn't know how to put on her own stockings.
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