Senhora Margarida had artistic preferences. She liked a nice eighteen-year-old corpse‚ a young girl to wash and dress and make up. She spent little time over the older people. With young girls‚ though‚ she took immense pains; she arranged the folds of the shroud just so; she worried over which would be more chic‚ a flower or a ribbon; she worked with all the preening attention to detail of a dressmaker to the grave.
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