She - The Original Classic Edition. Haggard H

He was a wonderful-looking old man, with a snowy beard, so long that the ends of it hung over the sides of the litter, and he had a hooked nose, above which flashed out a pair of eyes as keen as a snake's, while his whole countenance was instinct with a look of wise and sardonic humour impossible to describe on paper.

       "Art thou awake, stranger?" he said in a deep and low voice.

       "Surely, my father," I answered courteously, feeling certain that I should do well to conciliate this ancient Mammon of Unrighteous-ness.