These three were the only occupants, except the shadows.

But the shadows were a company in themselves; the extent of the room exaggerated them to a gigantic size, and from the low position of the candle the light struck upwards and produced deformed foreshortenings.
The mountebank's profile was enlarged upon the wall in caricature, and it was strange to see his nose shorten and lengthen as the flame was blown about by draughts.

As for Madame Tentaillon, her shadow was no more than a gross hump of shoulders, with now and again a hemisphere of head.

The chair legs were spindled out as long as stilts, and the boy set perched atop of them, like a cloud, in the corner of the roof.
It was the boy who took the Doctor's fancy.

He had a great arched skull, the forehead and the hands of a musician, and a pair of haunting eyes.