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He was a big, fine, handsome man, some five-and-fifty years of age, I should have said, but uncommonly well preserved a clean-shaven, powerful-faced man, with quick eyes and a very alert glance; maybe, if there was anything struck me particularly about him, it was the rapidity and watchfulness of his glances, the determination in his square jaw, and the extraordinary strength and whiteness of his teeth.
With difficulty the two men dragged themselves to their feet, and supporting each other, stood before her. One of them, a clever, powerful-faced man, whose black hair was tinged with grey, addressing himself to Benita, gasped: "Hear me. That fool there," and he pointed to his dead companion, "whose boasting brought his death upon him, was but a low fellow.
She thought a moment, looking at the wizened but powerful-faced old magician, then answered: "I will take the oath and keep my share of it. See that you keep yours, Kaku, or it will be the worse for you, for women have their own evil power." "I know it, Merytra, and from the beginning the wise have held that the spirit dwells, not in the heart or brain or liver, but in the female tongue.
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