His Other Wife: A Novel — page 340: what you’re looking at

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332 RACHEL’?S TESTIMONY. appearance of a creature that seemed to be the galvanized corpse of a woman, who glided noiselessly and phantom- like, in long, black garments, to the witness-stand. A chill of vague and painful horror crept to the very marrow of the assemblage. They shuddered as though they looked on one newly risen from the dead. CHAPTER XXXVII. RACHEL S TESTIMONY. From the corpse-like face of the mute witness not an eye could stir; a horrid fascination held the gaze suspended on that seemingly inanimate visage that bore a resemblance to a statue, in terra cotta, with hair, eyebrows and lashes of a dead whiteness, and from whose rigid sockets a pair of blazing black orbs shone, and glittered, and pierced with a terrible brightness. This miraculous face might have scared the wits from a strong man coming unawares upon his sight. It sat motionless upon a motionless body that was draped from the throat in a long, black, circular cloak. Nothing of the shape was visible; the hands were folded under the cloak. As this woman appeared, the face of the prisoner under- : | ~comicbooks.co