Do come up now, dear, and rest.' "A step sounded on the stairs, and there appeared beside us one of the most forbidding-looking men that I have ever beheld.

I don't know whether any of you have ever seen an Anglican Bishop.

Probably not.
Outside of the bush, they are now never seen.

But at the time of which I speak there were a few still here and there in the purlieus of the city.
The man before us was tall and ferocious, and his native ferocity was further enhanced by the heavy black beard which he wore in open defiance of the compulsory shaving laws.

His black shovel-shaped hat and his black clothes lent him a singularly sinister appearance, while his legs were bound in tight gaiters, as if ready for an instant spring.