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A grayish red.

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  • Sometimes the cool peace of middle life, with its automatic devices for shielding mind and body from bruises, seemed to her, compared with the thunder and the livid...
  • No fresher rose hangs on the branches than she; no appleblossom carried away by the wind is more buoyant!
  • (A shout out to HuffPost posters appleblossom and matthewmslc for their contributions to this discussion, which I shamelessly stole and am trying to pass off as mine.
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