The door opened to admit a thin, austere figure with a hatchet face and drooping mid-Victorian whiskers of a glossy blackness which hardly corresponded with the rounded shoulders and feeble gait.

门开了，一个瘦削、严肃的身影进来了， 他长着一张斧头脸， 下垂的维多利亚时代风格的胡须乌黑有光泽， 与圆圆的肩膀和无力的步态几乎不相符。