Baroness Orczy

“ On, Csillag flew, the village was far behind! the shouts of “Éljen!” had died away, the plain, in all its immensity, in all its loneliness, lay before him, and, Csillag, who like her master loved its untrammelled freedom, loved the vast expanse of earth and sky, bounded onwards, as if God’s angels had lent her their wings. ”

“ CHAPTER XXV FATA MORGANA Oh! the delights of that wild ride across the roads amid the fields of the beautiful Hungarian lowlands, with Csillag feeling, as it were, the same magnetic current, which filled her master’s veins, and flying along, swift and sure, like the very clouds driven by the wind. ”

“ All around, earth and sky were still. The noonday sun, poured down its radiance on the vast immensity of the plains. The heat made the air tremble with its waves. All signs of human life were far, very far away. ”