The one-eyed woman was a tall, thin, emaciated woman with a hollow chest and a bowed bust; long, thin arms, broad at the elbows and thick at the wrists; large, bony hands, ruined by rheumatism and work; thick, flat, ashy nails; curly hair, of an indecisive colour between dirty white and ash-blond, hair that seems rough and prickly to the touch; a mouth drawn back in an expression of contempt; a long, wrinkled neck like the necks of a crow; sickly, decayed teeth.