Excerpt from Greifenstein, Vol. 2 of 3 Greifenstein saw before him a tall man, with abundant white hair and a snowy heard, of bronzed complexion, evidently strong in spite of his years, chiefly remark able for the heavy black eyebrows that shaded his small grey eyes. The latter were placed too near together, and the eye lids slanted downwards at the outer side, which gave the face an expression of intel ligence and great cunning. Deep lines fur rowed the high forehead, and descended in broad curves from beneath the eyes till they lost themselves in the beard. Kuno von Rieseneck was evidently a man of strong feelings and passions, of energetic tempera ment, clever, unscrupulous, but liable to go astray after strange ideas, and possibly cap able of something very like fanaticism. It was indeed not credible that he should have done the deeds which had wrecked his life, out of cold calculation, and yet it was im possible to believe that he could be wholly disinterested in anything he did. The whole effect of his personality was disquieting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.