Everybody called it "the little grey house," and the name was doubly appropriate, since it did not matter whether one capitalized and emphasized the adjective, and spoke of it as "the little GREY house," or left to the adjective its natural ...
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Everybody called it "the little grey house," and the name was doubly appropriate, since it did not matter whether one capitalized and emphasized the adjective, and spoke of it as "the little GREY house," or left to the adjective its natural function, and spoke of the tiny home as "the little grey HOUSE." For, as to color, it could not well have been greyer. It had once-not recently-been painted grey, but wind and weather had stripped it of its artificial greyness while tinting its clapboards into soft, indelible tints even more conformable to its title.