Two or three of the debased, weather-beaten faces impressed themselves on his memory.

He noticed that a carter had his hand wrapped in a blood-stained bandage, and that another, who was kneeling in his cart, had the livid complexion, deep sunken eyes and convulsively contracted mouth of a man who has been poisoned.

The words of the song were mingled with guttural cries, the cracking of whips, the grinding of wheels, the jingling of horse bells and shrill discordant laughter.
His mental depression increased.

He found himself in a very curious mood.

The sensibility of his nerves was so acute that the most trivial impression conveyed to them by external means assumed the gravity of a wound.