A Rose for Emily

How is Miss Emily physically described in A Rose for Emily?

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"They rose when she entered--a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed
into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand."

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A Rose for Emily