Quotation from: The Gods of Mars

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs

'JOHN CARTER'

Early the next morning I took the first train for Richmond and
within two hours was being ushered into the room occupied by John
Carter.

As I entered he rose to greet me, his old-time cordial smile of
welcome lighting his handsome face. Apparently he had not aged a
minute, but was still the straight, clean-limbed fighting-man of
thirty. His keen grey eyes were undimmed, and the only lines upon
his face were the lines of iron character and determination that
always had been there since first I remembered him, nearly thirty-five
years before.