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Low under his breath he was snarling when he went on. Hatred, for a moment, had flamed hot in his soul. Then he turned, and buried himself in a clump of balsams that reached out into the plain, and a few moments later came to the edge of a tiny meadow in the heart of them, where a warbler was bursting its throat in evening-song.
He heard the neighing of the horses, the trumpeting of the elephants, the roaring of the lions, and the snarling of the tigers. "Oh, it's the circus! It's my circus!" cried Mappo to himself, and so it was. "Now we make much money!" said the hand-organ man. "The people who come to the circus have many pennies. They give them to me when I play.
And when that was done I sang the song of Bosham bell, with the ending that the gleeman on Colchester Hill had made. Thereat Beorn raised his head and, snarling at me like an angry dog, bade me cease singing of shipwreck. But I heeded him not, and so I sang and he cursed, until at last he wept like an angry child, and I held my peace.
Like so many wild cats snarling at sight of prey, they threw themselves upon those clothes, tearing them out from one another's hands, turning them over and over as if to force the cloth and satin to yield up the secret that lay within their folds. In the skirmish a scrap of paper fluttered to the ground.
An uproar from the dogs and shrill cries from Ruth hastened him. Bursting into the camp, he saw the girl in the midst of the snarling pack, laying about her with an ax. The dogs had broken the iron rule of their masters and were rushing the grub.
The noise of snapping, snarling and growling was kept up and through the watches of that dreadful night, he never closed an eye. As the rays of the tropical morning sun began to penetrate the gloom, Paul looked around him. Everywhere along the sides of the cavern were ledges and shelves of rock; covering these was an army of seals and sea lions waking from their night's rest.
They took too seriously the troubles of the early summer of 1914, when Ulster and the South of Ireland were snapping and snarling at each other's throats. They looked for a new mutiny in India, which should keep Britain's hands full. They expected strikes at home.
Already the billows were mounting angrily into caps of snarling foam and dashing themselves on the sands with threatening echo. It promised to be a nasty night, and Jack remembered as he looked that he was on patrol duty.
It is your life against mine, Fresnel; and you'll not find it strange that if one of us must die I prefer that it shall be you." Fresnel dipped a hand into his pocket, and fetched thence a key. He held it out to Andre-Louis in fingers that shook more in anger than in fear. "I yield to violence," he said, showing his teeth like a snarling dog. "But don't imagine that it will greatly profit you."
The man, indeed, was sinking deeper and deeper into a pit of sordid misery, maintaining all the while a snarling exasperating front to the world, which was rapidly converting the careless half-malicious pity wherewith the village had till now surveyed his fall into that more active species of baiting which the human animal is never very loth to try upon the limping specimens of his race.
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