confused withdrawal ( surrender , anne called it ) from college , but a few years had become five , five had become ten , ten had become thirteen , and looky 'yere , huck , peter 's old and you got a pretty good crop of gray coming up in what used to be hair as black as the river styx ( she 'd tried cropping it close two years ago , almost a punk do , had been horrified to find it made the gray even more noticeable , and had let it grow ever since ) .