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nostrils themselves are raised and extended. The eyes 

 are widely opened, and beneath them the skin appears 

 swollen; the pupils are large. The forehead is wrinkled 

 transversely in many folds, and at the inner extremities 

 of the eyebrows it is strongly furrowed in diverging lines, 

 produced by the powerful and persistent contraction of 

 the eorruffators. 



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Mr. Bell has also described 19 an a^onv of terror and 

 of despair, which he witnessed in a murderer, whilst 

 carried to the place of execution in Turin. " On each 

 side of the car the officiating priests were seated; and 

 in the centre sat the criminal himself. It was impossible 

 to witness the condition of this unhappy wretch without 

 terror; and yet, as if impelled by some strange infatua- 

 tion, it was equally impossible not to gaze upon an ob- 

 ject so wild, so full of horror. He seemed about thirty- 

 five years of age; of large and muscular form; his coun- 

 tenance marked by strong and savage features; half 

 naked, pale as death, agonized with terror, every limb 

 strained in anguish, his hands clenched convulsively, 

 the sweat breaking out on his bent and contracted brow, 

 he kissed incessantly the figure of our Saviour, painted 

 on the flag which was suspended before him; but with 

 an agony of wildness and despair, of which nothing ever 

 exhibited on the stage can give the slightest conception." 



I will add only one other case, illustrative of a man 

 utterly prostrated by terror. An atrocious murderer of 

 two persons was brought into a hospital, under the mis- 

 taken impression that he had poisoned himself; and Dr. 

 \Y. Ogle carefully watched him the next morning, while 

 he was being handcuffed and taken away by the police. 

 His pallor was extreme, and his prostration so great that 



19 ' Observations on Italy,' 1S25, p. 48, as quoted in ' The 

 Anatomy of Expression,' p. 168. 



