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There lay extended his mistress cold colourless silent unimpassioned. There was life in the breeze that played on her raven tresses grim death was enthroned on the face those tresses swept. Not that decay's finger had yet really assailed it; but one of the peculiar properties of the preservative used by Doctor Pormont, is its pervading sepulchral odour.
All Lucy's loveliness had come back to her in death, and the hours that had passed, instead of leaving traces of 'decay's effacing fingers', had but restored the beauty of life, till positively I could not believe my eyes that I was looking at a corpse. The Professor looked sternly grave. He had not loved her as I had, and there was no need for tears in his eyes.
Vegetation touched, but not dead, or, if killed, not bereft yet of 'signs of life. 'Decay's effacing fingers' had not yet 'swept the hills' 'where beauty lingers. All looked fresh as growing foliage. Vermont frosts don't seem to be 'killing frosts. They only change aspects of beauty.
When, however, they came to look, they found that "decay's offensive fingers" had been more busy than they could have imagined, and that whatever they touched of the earlier coffins crumbled into dust before their very fingers.
I accordingly closed my eyes for an instant, and then looked again in full expectation that the frightful object would no longer be visible. It was still there; the body lay upon its side; the countenance turned full towards me, calm, quiet, even beautiful, but certainly that of death: 'Ere yet Decay's effacing fingers Had swept the lines where Beauty lingers'
Vegetation touched, but not dead, or, if killed, not bereft yet of 'signs of life. 'Decay's effacing fingers' had not yet 'swept the hills' 'where beauty lingers. All looked fresh as growing foliage. Vermont frosts don't seem to be 'killing frosts. They only change aspects of beauty.
"Having cleaned away my 'make-up, I spent the rest of the day pushing forward the preliminary processes so that these might be completed before 'decay's effacing fingers' should obliterate the details of the integumentary structures.
I accordingly closed my eyes for an instant, and then looked again in full expectation that the frightful object would no longer be visible. It was still there; the body lay upon its side; the countenance turned full towards me, calm, quiet, even beautiful, but certainly that of death: 'Ere yet Decay's effacing fingers Had swept the lines where Beauty lingers'
Yet every where appeared the evidence of "decay's effacing fingers." On the opposite side of the bay was once a flourishing site, which previous to the attack of the English had been the residence of the wealthier citizens, mandarins, etc. When the British troops invested this place, they occupied these buildings as barracks; and being withdrawn after the treaty, left them in a ruinous condition.
The valley became wider and the hills less abrupt, while the villages had an air of irregularity more pleasing than the military precision on the Amoor. I saw many dwellings on which decay's effacing fingers were busy. The telegraph posts were fixed above Gorbitza, but the wires had not been strung.
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