Pah! Only an old woman!⁠ ⁠… but the size, + 

The old, old matriarchal dreadfulness, + 

Immovable, intolerable⁠ ⁠… the eyes + 

Hidden, the hidden head, the winding dress, + 

Corpselike⁠ ⁠… The weight of the brute that seemed to press + 

Upon his heart and breathing. Then he heard + 

His own voice, strange and humble, take the word. + 