Her hair fell about her face like flakes of floss-silk, loose, and yellow as Indian corn; and her rosy cheeks were deeply dimpled.

From this peaceful corner one passes into the barbaric splendor of a souk hung with innumerable plumy bunches of floss silkskeins of citron yellow, crimson, grasshopper green and pure purple.

That hair was in itself a grace and gloryrippling from crown to waist in sheeny, golden splendor, fine as silk, and glossy as the yellow floss threads of pale, ripe Indian-cornbeautiful, even in its dishevelled and drenched condition, as an artist's dream.