=6.= Had wiped the pictured features from a slate! etc.
Note two powerful similes in these lines. Do they convey
adequately the horror of the spectator? This “ruined face” of
Hugh’s has much in the remainder of the story. The lines are not
pleasant to read, but life is not always pleasant. Homer and
Shakespeare often wrote lines that shock by their naked truth.
=15.= Still painted upon black that alien stare
Why “alien stare”?
=16.= To make the lad more terribly alone.
Why “more terribly alone”?
=21.= Pale vagrants from the legendry of death
Pale vagrants, _i.e._ ghosts.
Define: funereal, alien, legendry, potential.