He--for it was a man--was very tall, or, rather, he had been very tall.

Now he was much bent with age and rheumatism.

His long white hair hung low upon his neck, and fell back from a prominent brow.

The top of the head was quite bald, like the tonsure of a priest, and shone and glistened in the lamplight, and round this oasis the thin white locks fell down.

The face was shrivelled like the surface of a well-kept apple, and, like an apple, rosy red.