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Therese Raquin

CHAPTER XXV
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The second represented a fair young girl, who gazed at him with the blue eyes of his victim.

Each of the other three faces presented a feature of the drowned man.

It looked like Camille with the theatrical make-up of an old man, of a young girl, assuming whatever disguise it pleased the painter to give him, but still maintaining the general expression of his own countenance.
There existed another terrible resemblance among these heads: they all appeared suffering and terrified, and seemed as though overburdened with the same feeling of horror.

Each of them had a slight wrinkle to the left of the mouth, which drawing down the lips, produced a grimace.

This wrinkle, which Laurent remembered having noticed on the convulsed face of the drowned man, marked them all with a sign of vile relationship.
Laurent understood that he had taken too long a look at Camille at the Morgue.


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