But all the drowned were stout.

He saw enormous stomachs, puffy thighs, and strong round arms.

He did not know what to do.

He stood there shuddering before those greenish-looking rags, which seemed like mocking him, with their horrible wrinkles.
One morning, he was seized with real terror.

For some moments, he had been looking at a corpse, taken from the water, that was small in build and atrociously disfigured.