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"She was sleeping flat on her face, her tortoiseshell pins standing out boldly from the rest of the horizontal figure. The train of her tunic prolonged her delicate little body; her arms were stretched crosswise, the sleeves spread out like wings. She looked like a dead fairy; or still more did she resemble some great dragon-fly, which, having alighted on that spot, some unkind hand had pinned to the floor."