NS NihilScio
His bloatedbody and shrunken legs--their deformity enhanced a hundredfold by thefantastic dress--the glassy eyes, contrasting fearfully with thethick white paint with which the face was besmeared; thegrotesquely-ornamented head, trembling with paralysis, and the longskinny hands, rubbed with white chalk--all gave him a hideous andunnatural appearance, of which no description could convey an adequateidea, and which, to this day, I shudder to think of.