It was that of a man in advanced life, with a long grizzled beard, and also robed in white, probably the husband of the lady, who, after surviving her many years, came at the last to sleep once more for good and all beside her.

All I knew was, the three-year gap made the difference between passing as American and being exposed as FOB.

H]e persisted in his design; and, because he would not make his wants known, actually subsisted for several days on hips, haws and sloes, and other spontaneous fruits which he gathered in the woods and fields.

The question makes the obscurities and withdrawals and unappealingness of modern art seem willful — which is another fact of the experience of that art.