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face, sunburned, and encircled by a beard, with eyes brilliant as carbuncles, and a smile upon the mouth which displayed a perfect set of thirty-two white teeth, pointed and sharp as the wolf’s or jackal’s. A red handkerchief encircled his grayish hair; torn and filthy garments covered
Caderousse and Andrea Cavalcanti.
his large bony limbs, which seemed as though, like those of a skeleton, they would rattle as he walked; and the hand with which he leaned upon the young man’s shoulder, and which was the first thing Andrea saw, seemed of a gigantic size.
