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| - Jasper Dale is a bookish recluse who lives at Golden Milestone. He is nicknamed "The Awkward Man." "We met the Awkward man in his yard, and he gave us a quarter apiece for our library. He did not seem awkward or shy; but then we were only children, and his foot was on his native heath. He was a tall, slender man, who did not look his forty years, so unwrinkled was his high, white forehead, so clear and lustrous his large, dark-blue eyes, so free from silver threads his rather long black hair. He had large hands and feet, and walked with a slight stoop. I am afraid we stared at him rather rudely while the Story Girl talked to him. But was not an Awkward Man, who was also a hermit and kept blue silk dresses in a locked room, and possibly wrote poetry, a legitimate object of curiosity? I leave it to you. When we got away we compared notes, and found that we all liked him–and this, although he had said little and had appeared somewhat glad to get rid of us. " The Story Girl ch. 7 His home is surrouned by the mystery of a blue room with items belonging to a lady named "Alice." He marries Alice Reade in The Golden Road
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