A young man – we can sketch his portrait at a dash. Imagine to yourself a Don Quixote of eighteen; …a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet, the blue color of
which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure;
face long and brown; high cheek bones, a sign of sagacity;… – and our young man
wore a cap set off with a sort of feather; the eye open and intelligent; the nose hooked,
but finely chiseled.
Read the passage above with accuracy and fluency. Discuss any unfamiliar words from the
passage and what strategies you used to understand them.