inscrutable-old-faced

Updated: July 17, 2026

Whilst I wondered the door opened, and the sardonic, inscrutable-old-faced man, whom this Khania had called Magician, and who called the Khania, niece, entered and stood before me. The shaman advanced to my side and asked me courteously how I fared. I answered, "Better. Far better, oh, my host but how are you named?"

Henry Rider Haggard - Ayesha, the Return of She