Note 2 — STARVING JOHN THE DOCTOR.

Somehow however—he could never tell how—there suddenly stood before him a dreadful old woman, all dressed in black: she had sunken eyes as dull as a blown-out candle, or a lamp-wick when the oil fails; her skin was as withered and yellow as a Simancas2 parchment; her mouth like a clothes-basket; and her nose I don’t know how to describe—for she had no nose at all to speak of.