... at the point of the plain nearest the cliff There was on the eminence a shape which in the mist looked like a tree The child had just heard a noise in this direction, which was the noise neither ... realities, the place, the hour, the mist, the mournful sea, the cloudy turmoils on the distant horizon, added to the effect of this figure, and made it seem enormous The mass linked to the chain ... horror; the iron, rust; the plague, miasma; the flowers, perfume His slow disintegration was a toll paid to all a toll of the corpse to the storm, to the rain, to the dew, to the reptiles, to the...