The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

Short excerpt: Who could have seen his hollow cheek; his sunken brilliant eye; his black-attired figure, indefinably grim, although well-knit and well-proportioned; his grizzled hair hanging, like tangled sea-weed, about his face,?as if he had been, through his whole life, a lonely mark for the chafing and beating of the great deep of humanity,?but might have said he looked like a haunted man?