![]() ![]() ![]() And over this loathsome and grotesque mask of death the hair, the beautiful hair, still blazed like sunlight and flowed downward in rippling gold. Quite a reddish crush was peeling from one of the cheeks and invading the mouth, which it distorted into a horrible grin. One eye, the left eye, had completely foundered among bubbling purulence, and the other, which remained half open, looked like a deep, black, ruinous hole. Fading and sunken, they had assumed the grayish hue of mud and on that formless pulp, where the features had ceased to be traceable, they already resembled some decaying damp from the grave. The pustules had invaded the whole of the face, so that each touched its neighbor. ![]() She was fruit of the charnel house, a heap of matter and blood, a shovelful of corrupted flesh thrown down on the pillow. Nana was left alone with upturned face in the light cast by the candle. ![]()
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