They had become bony or bloated; their eyes were either hollow, with violet rings around them, or puffy, with crimson pouches beneath; the fat people had become yellow and the thin ones were turning green.
"More deadly than the forgotten venefices of the days of the Avignon papacy, the terrible preparations served in this place were slowly poisoning its customers.
"It was interested, as you may believe.

I made myself the subject of a course of toxicological research, and, studying my food as it went down, I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster.
"I have promised myself to return every month to register the slow but sure progress of these people toward the tomb." "Oh!" cried Mme.

Carhaix.
"And you will claim," said Durtal, "that you aren't Satanic ?" "See, Carhaix, he's at it already.

He won't even give us time to get our breath, but must be dogging us about Satanism.

It's true I promised him I'd try and get you to tell us something about it tonight.