PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Gaunt: Lean and haggard, especially due to sickness or suffering.
Carbuncle: a bright red gem.
"Sleep on the wing': An action taken by birds, who glide in flight when resting.
Artery: an important path of circulation in a system - either a city or in the body.
Muffle and smother: To cloak, cover or wrap up; to suffocate, to obscure, to stifle.
TURN: A shift or change of direction or mood within a literary text.
"But the room was gay with firelight'
The glow of hot autumn afternoons... was ready to be set free... the lawyer melted.
His blood ran cold in his veins.