michelangelo painting

michelangelo painting
All hanged!" said the guardian of the Black Museum briefly. "Casts taken after death."
Bunting smiled nervously. "They don't look dead somehow.. They looks more as if they were listening," he said.
"That's the fault of Jack Ketch," said the man facetiously. "It's his idea - that of knotting his' patient's necktie under the left ear! That's what he does to each of the gentlemen to whom he has to act valet on just one occasion only. It makes them lean just a bit to one side. You look here - ?"
Daisy and her father came a little closer, and the speaker pointed with his' finger to a little dent imprinted on the left side of each neck; running from this indentation was a curious little furrow, well ridged above, showing how tightly Jack Ketch's necktie had been drawn when its wearer was hurried through the gates of eternity.
"They looks foolish-like, rather than terrified, or - or hurt," said Bunting wonderingly.
He was extraordinarily moved and fascinated by those dumb, staring faces.
But young Chandler exclaimed in a cheerful, matter-of-fact voice, "Well, a man would look foolish at such a time as that, with all his plans brought to naught - and knowing he's only got a second to live - now wouldn't he?"