On our common bed she was stretched, with knees drawn up.
"She lay very high, upon pillows, with her chemise half open.

Linen had been placed upon the wound.

A heavy smell of iodoform filled the room.
Before, and more than anything else, I was astonished at her face, which was swollen and bruised under the eyes and over a part of the nose.

This was the result of the blow that I had struck her with my elbow, when she had tried to hold me back.

Of beauty there was no trace left.