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The clean-stripped skeleton lying upon the raft, and which was clearly that of a human being; the bones scattered about, some of them, as already observed, held in hand, and in such fashion as to show the horrid use that was being made of them, left no doubt as to the nature of the food upon which the hungering wretches had been subsisting.
She could look forward with a girl's pleasure to the perusal of them in manuscript, in a woody nook, in a fervour of partizanship, easily avoiding sight of errors, grammatical or moral. She chafed at the possible printing and publishing of them. That would be equivalent to an exhibition of him clean-stripped for a run across London brilliant in himself, spotty in the offence.
She could look forward with a girl's pleasure to the perusal of them in manuscript, in a woody nook, in a fervour of partizanship, easily avoiding sight of errors, grammatical or moral. She chafed at the possible printing and publishing of them. That would be equivalent to an exhibition of him clean-stripped for a run across London brilliant in himself, spotty in the offence.
Even in appearance they were more like skeletons than men. One actually was a skeleton, not a living skeleton, but a corpse, clean-stripped of its flesh. The ensanguined bones, with some fragments of the cartilage still adhering to them, showed that the despoliation had been recent. The skeleton was not perfect. Some of the bones were absent.
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