Although so dingy and inconsiderable to the eye, he feared it might have more significance to the touch.

He took the body by the shoulders, and turned it on its back.

It was strangely light and supple, and the limbs, as if they had been broken, fell into the oddest postures.

The face was robbed of all expression; but it was as pale as wax, and shockingly smeared with blood about one temple.

That was, for Markheim, the one displeasing circumstance.