He was as pallid as a corpse.

Some of the ladies thought it their duty to faint also, and proceeded to do so.
"He is out of his head! Padre Salvi!" "I told him not to eat that bird's-nest soup," said Padre Irene.

"It has made him sick." "But he didn't eat anything," rejoined Don Custodio shivering.

"As the head has been staring at him fixedly, it has mesmerized him." So disorder prevailed, the room seemed to be a hospital or a battlefield.

Padre Salvi looked like a corpse, and the ladies, seeing that no one was paying them any attention, made the best of it by recovering.
Meanwhile, the head had been reduced to ashes, and Mr.Leeds, having replaced the cloth on the table, bowed his audience out.
"This show must be prohibited," said Don Custodio on leaving.