And now, as I still continued to step cautiously onward, there came thronging upon my recollection a thousand vague rumors of the
horrors of Toledo.
I find it difficult even to write; my hands shake so that they are not under control, and I am trembling all over with memory of the
horrors we saw enacted before our eyes.
"I cannot tell you, Miss Maxon," he said sadly, "how much I should hate to be the one to ignore your father's commands, and enlighten you upon this and other subjects which lie nearer to your personal welfare than you can possibly guess; but I feel that after the
horrors of this day duty demands that I must lay all before you--you cannot again be exposed to the
horrors from which you were rescued only by a miracle."
O fatal wedlock, thou didst give me birth, And, having borne me, sowed again my seed, Mingling the blood of fathers, brothers, children, Brides, wives and mothers, an incestuous brood, All
horrors that are wrought beneath the sun,
Horrors so foul to name them were unmeet.
And now he--the mighty Lord of the Jungle--he, Tarzan, King of the Apes, the only one in all the world fitted to find and save the child from the
horrors that Rokoff's evil mind had planned--had been trapped like a silly, dumb creature.
The pencil, and not the pen, should describe the
horrors which appeared in both their countenances.
But in spite of all the murderer's
horror before the body of his victim, he must hack it to pieces, hide the body, must use what he has gained by his murder.
But all those death's heads were motionless and their dumb
horror was not alive.
Hoisting the sails, and cutting the cable of the anchor, they sailed our vessel to an island which lay a little further off, where they drove us ashore; then taking possession of her, they made off to the place from which they had come, leaving us helpless upon a shore avoided with
horror by all mariners for a reason which you will soon learn.
I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless
horror and disgust filled my heart.
I saw astonishment giving place to
horror on the faces of the people about me.
"And Geoffrey has some unreasoning
horror of the landlady which makes it very undesirable that he should see her again, in his present state.