He bent over and again forced back the leaden flange, and a shock of surprise and dismay shot through me.
There lay Lucy, seemingly just as we had seen her the night before her funeral.

She was, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever, and I could not believe that she was dead.

The lips were red, nay redder than before, and on the cheeks was a delicate bloom.
"Is this a juggle ?" I said to him.
"Are you convinced now ?" said the Professor, in response, and as he spoke he put over his hand, and in a way that made me shudder, pulled back the dead lips and showed the white teeth.

"See," he went on, "they are even sharper than before.

With this and this," and he touched one of the canine teeth and that below it, "the little children can be bitten.