[Therese Raquin by Emile Zola]@TWC D-Link bookTherese Raquin CHAPTER XXV 15/19
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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