Jonas Oldacre

Mr. Jonas Oldacre is a bachelor, fifty-two years of age, and lives in Deep Dene House, at the Sydenham end of the road of that name. He has had the reputation of being a man of eccentric habits, secretive and retiring.
“He was a strange little ferret-like man, with white eyelashes, and when I looked up at him I found his keen gray eyes fixed upon me with an amused expression.” (John Hector McFarlane)

‘He was more like a malignant and cunning ape than a human being,’ said she, ‘and he always was, ever since he was a young man.” (Mrs McFarlane)

It was an odious face — crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-gray eyes and white lashes.