Excerpt from Under the Red Flag: Or the Adventures of Two American Boys in the Days of the Commune
The face fascinated the two boys.
Will clung tightly to Frank"s hand as he gazed up at the strange features carved in the time-blackened stone.
He felt like running away, for the face, with its fantastic and mocking smile, its widely-opened eyes, which seemed to express a vague horror in weird contrast to the merry lips, thrilled his heart with fear.
Yet he could not take his eyes from it.
"See, Will," said Frank, there"s another one! Don"t they look as if they wanted to eat us?"
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