Kirjoittaja annastindeli » Pe 16 Maalis 2012 19:08
Tämä on nyt englanniksi, kun suurin osa meidän kirjoista on englanniksi. Suomenkielinenkin kirjan nimi kelpaa vastaukseksi.
"He stood unable to do anything but to stare down, tranced by this unexpected encounter,
and overcome by an equally strange feeling - not sexual, but fraternal, perhaps paternal, a
certainty of the innocence of this creature, of her being unfairly outcast, and which was in turn
a factor of his intuition of her appalling loneliness. He could not imagine what, besides despair,
could drive her, in an age where women were semistatic, timid, incapable of sustained physical
effort, to this wild place.
He came at last to the very edge of the rampart above her, directly over her face, and there
he saw that all the sadness he had so remarked before was gone; in sleep the face was gentle,
it might even have had the ghost of a smile. It was precisely then, as he craned sideways down,
that she awoke."