but, when I came to look into the wonderful depth of those large dreamy eyes, I felt, with a strange sense of awe, that he was incalculably older: he seemed to gaze at us out of some by-gone age, centuries away.

 

 

"I don't know if oo're an old man," Bruno answered, as the children, won over by the gentle voice, crept a little closer to him. "I thinks oo’re eighty-three."

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