He went straight to the glass separating the spectators from the corpses, and with his pale face against it, looked.

Facing him appeared rows of grey slabs, and upon them, here and there, the naked bodies formed green and yellow, white and red patches.

While some retained their natural condition in the rigidity of death, others seemed like lumps of bleeding and decaying meat.

At the back, against the wall, hung some lamentable rags, petticoats and trousers, puckered against the bare plaster.

Laurent at first only caught sight of the wan ensemble of stones and walls, spotted with dabs of russet and black formed by the clothes and corpses.