When she really got fed up with Charlus' domination, he sent that first wax doll.
Charlus left the wax doll in the old man's bed and frightened him to death.
Not like a wax doll, but as if she were sleeping.
The wax doll is important to Kyoji, as it was his most prized creation.
She had seen David Copperfield out of the world, who was always running after wax dolls from his cradle.
She dropped the statuette, which didn't break like a wax doll would have, because its coating of bronze kept it intact.
Then abruptly de Sade fell silent, and went back to staring at his wax dolls on the table.
And when the flow of his will was interrupted, he melted like a wax doll.
So the wax doll sat all night with its eyes wide open staring ahead like a small dead child.
The water had turned him into something resembling a wax doll.