![]() ![]() The few teeth that remained to her were dark and discolored there were deep lines fretted about her mouth, and her chin was something after the 'nut - cracker' pattern. She was a large - boned woman, with a large nose, large eyes, and a prominent forehead there seemed to be, at First sight, some dim suggestion of a resemblance between her and some shriveled, spongy, dried - up fruit. "Madame Grandet's face was thin and wrinkled and yellow as saffron she was awkward and slow in her movements, one of those beings who seemed born to be tyrannized over. There was a dangerous cunning about this face, although the man, indeed, was honest according to the letter of the law it was a selfish face there were but two things in the world for which its owner cared - the delights of hoarding wealth in the first place, and in the second, the only being who counted for anything in his estimation, his daughter Eugénie, his only child, who one day should inherit that wealth." "On his nose, which was broad and blunt at the tip, was a variegated wen gossip affirmed, not without some appearance of truth, that spite and rancor was the cause of this affection. ![]()
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