His voice and look and manner were like his velvet coat, which had here and there a whitish sheen, as if it had been touched by moonlight.

His hair too had that sheen.

His very delicate features were framed in a white beard and moustache of Elizabethan shape.

His eyes, hazel and still clear, looked out very straight, with a certain dry kindliness.

His face, though unweathered and unseamed, and much too fine and thin in texture, had a curious affinity to the faces of old sailors or fishermen who have lived a simple, practical life in the light of an overmastering tradition.