meagre, phthisic

Burbank's eyes have been opened by Bleistein and finally sees Volupine for who she really is - a declining beauty. Cf. Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto LXXIX: "The Niobe of Nations! there she stands, / Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; / An empty urn within her wither'd hands."

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