The twisted lips were drawn to a corner of the mouth in an atrocious grin; and a piece of blackish tongue appeared between the white teeth.

This head, which looked tanned and drawn out lengthwise, while preserving a human appearance, had remained all the more frightful with pain and terror.
The body seemed a mass of ruptured flesh; it had suffered horribly.
You could feel that the arms no longer held to their sockets; and the clavicles were piercing the skin of the shoulders.

The ribs formed black bands on the greenish chest; the left side, ripped open, was gaping amidst dark red shreds.

All the torso was in a state of putrefaction.
The extended legs, although firmer, were daubed with dirty patches.

The feet dangled down.
Laurent gazed at Camille.