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 to be tricked out that night with gauds from imaginations which have no peasant traditions to give them character but flutter and flaunt sheer rags — succumbing without emotion save numbed terror under some hedge of choke-cherry or viburnum — which they cannot express — Unless it be that marriage perhaps with a dash of Indian blood will throw up a girl so desolate so hemmed round with disease or murder that she'll be rescued by an agent — reared by the state and