The Strangest Lady I Have Ever Seen

I was taken to see a ghastly wax work at the fair, representing an impossible personage lying in state. Once i had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement. I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow. The figure upon which it now hung loose had shrunk to skin and bone. And some lace for her bosom lay with those trinkets, and with her handkerchief and gloves and some flowers and a prayer book, all confusedly

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