The Black Fox A Novel Of The Seventies (1951) - Plot & Excerpts
She must be frightened. With her other hand she was pointing at the foot of the hedge. He saw what had caught her attention. He felt also the tremor of her fear run through him like a current. For the sight, at least at first glance, should not have shaken both of them so severely. Three yards away, at the base of the towering yew bridge, and just beyond the wide herbaceous border at which they stood, there shone up at them, almost at ground level, two small green-silver spots, like small fragments of reflected moonlight. They stood still, trying to make out what in the yew-hedge's shadow could so catch the moonlight. Then as they watched, the two points moved, trailing after them a smear of black. It was as though the shadow of the hedge at this point began to protrude, until passing across the cultivated earth of the flowerbed, the black wedge touched the ghostly green of the mown grass-path on which they were standing. As the black smear moved toward them the dense scent of the stocks seemed to clot until it was rancid.
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