The Were-wolfJ. Lane at the Bodley Head, 1896 - 123 páginas |
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66 Sweyn agony arms bear-spear beast beautiful bestial black jowl blood brain breath bright brother Cairn caught child Chris Christian clasped close contempt dared dark dead deadly death despair desperate door dreadful edge fair fear feet fell Thing Fell's fierce fir-grove flung followed footprints forward furlong gave grasp grew guessed hand head heard heart holy water homestead horror house-mistress kill Christian kissed Sweyn knees knew laid latch laugh leap leapt legs lifted little Rol look man's matchless midnight neck never night old Trella pace pain porch puppy race rattled ridges Rol's rose round savage shoulders sight signal silence smile snow sound speed stars stood straight strange stranger strength striking struck Sweyn's face teeth Thora's thought tian tian's track turned Tyr's uncon UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA utter voice watch Were-Wolf wheel whispers White Fell wind wolf woman word yond
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Página 108 - ... teeth had hardly yet relaxed when it rang out ; and the dreadful cry began with a woman's shriek, and changed and ended as the yell of a beast. And before the final blank overtook his dying eyes, he saw that She gave place to It ; he saw more, that Life gave place to Death—causelessly, incomprehensibly.
Página 88 - The edge of the teeth and the glitter of the eyes stayed a moment, and her right hand also slid down to the axe haft. Then, without a word, she swerved from him, and sprang out and away swiftly over the snow. And Christian sprang out and away, and followed her swiftly over the snow, keeping behind, but half a stride's length from her side. So they went running together, silent, toward the vast wastes of snow, where no living thing but they two moved under the stars of night. Never before had Christian...
Página 90 - From the first, Christian had judged of her speed as admirable, yet with exulting security in his own excelling and enduring, whatever her efforts. But, when the pace increased, he found himself put to the test as never had he been before in any race. Her feet, indeed, flew faster than his; it was only by his length of stride that he kept his place at her side. But his heart was high and resolute, and he did not fear failure yet. So the desperate race flew on. Their feet struck up the powdery snow,...
Página 108 - Like lightning she snatched her axe, and struck him on the neck — deep — once — twice — his life-blood gushed out, staining her feet. The stars touched midnight. The death scream he heard was not his, for his set teeth had hardly yet relaxed when it rang out. And the dreadful cry began with a woman's shriek, and changed and ended as the yell of a beast. And before the final blank overtook his dying eyes, he saw that She gave place to It; he saw more, that Life gave place to Death — incomprehensibly.
Página 92 - ... kissed Sweyn, but he should not die, too — with Sweyn to save he could not fail. Never before was such a race as this; no, not when in old Greece man and maid raced together with two fates at stake; for the hard running was sustained unabated, while star after star rose and went wheeling up toward midnight — for one hour, for two hours. Then Christian saw and heard what shot him through with fear. Where a fringe of trees hung round a slope he saw something dark moving, and heard a yelp, followed...
Página 38 - then I should be able to see or hear a signal." "I will look out," said Sweyn; "then, if there be no signal, you must not leave us." He went to the door. Christian silently followed him out. "Sweyn, do you know what she is?" Sweyn, surprised at the vehement grasp and low hoarse voice, made answer: "She? Who? White Fell?" "Yes." "She is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.
Página 102 - Why did the stars stop to shudder ? Midnight else had surely come! The leaning, leaping Thing looked back at him with a wild, fierce look, and laughed in savage scorn and triumph. He saw in a flash why, for within a time measurable by seconds she would have escaped him utterly. As the land lay, a slope of ice sunk on the one hand; on the other hand a steep rose, shouldering...
Página 99 - ... dropped powerless, gashed and with the lesser bone broken that jarred with horrid pain when he let it swing, as he leaped out again, and ran to recover the few feet she had gained from his pause at the shock. The near escape and this new quick pain made again every faculty alive and intense. He knew that what he followed was most surely Death animate; wounded and helpless, he was utterly at her mercy if so she should realize and take action. Hopeless to avenge, hopeless to save, his very despair...
Página 99 - ... again, and ran to recover the few feet she had gained from his pause at the shock. The near escape and this new quick pain made again every faculty alive and intense. He knew that what he followed was most surely Death animate; wounded and helpless, he was utterly at her mercy if so she should realize and take action. Hopeless to avenge, hopeless to save, his very despair for Sweyn swept him on to follow and follow and precede the kiss-doomed to death. Could he yet fail to hunt that Thing past...
Página 23 - The fashion of her dress was strange, half masculine, yet not unwomanly. A fine fur tunic, reaching but little below the knee, was all the skirt she wore ; below were the cross-bound shoes and leggings that a hunter wears. A white fur cap was set low upon the brows, and from its edge strips of fur fell lappet-wise about her shoulders; two of these at her entrance had been drawn forward and crossed about her throat, but now, loosened and thrust back, left unhidden long plaits of fair hair that lay...