grey

So most of us are getting older. Has anyone started noticing grey hairs yet? I didn't shave for a long time last time and I swear a couple of hair on my chin had a lighter color to them. I can't tell if it's just blonde though. There is one hair in my side burns that is pure white looking, it's...

This is the text present in Chapter 11 of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine as serialized in the New Review. It was cut from the book but later published on its own as a short story, "The Grey Man."