liquid; the mouth was half open.

9. The neck had almost disappeared, owing to the swelling of the

Four pages were covered with the 27 paragraphs describing all the

details of the external examination of the enormous, fat,

swollen, and decomposing body of the merchant who had been making

merry in the town. The indefinite loathing that Nekhludoff felt

was increased by the description of the corpse. Katusha's life,

and the scrum oozing from the nostrils of the corpse, and the