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Fight! . . . . Fight! . . . . We don't fear, we don't fear, we don't fear Tiger's bite...
...must call "aura". They vibrate. He says they do. Whenever Winifred looks at Egbert, even when animal love is all that remains, she reminds herself that he is a sort of electric person. "He is," as Lawrence would put it, "so terrificially present to her" (my quotes). His characters bite and scratch; themselves and one another. They cling and they smash. It is on the whole, a quivering scene. The men and women in it appear perfectly normal on the outside, perfectly British (or Chinese). But shortly the current is turned on and what happens is the story of "Tickets...
...fear, we don't fear, we don't fear Tige's bite...
...blood begins to manufacture an antidote to this special poison and eventually becomes immune to it. From the blood of the horse the antidote is extracted, and this in turn is preserved and sent to hospitals so that it may be used to cure persons suffering from snake bite...
This book is quick with moments of such beauty as only Walter de la Mare can achieve. There are sentences on every page that bite one. I could quote whole paragraphs but the space is denied...