John Galsworthy

“ Then he crept noiselessly out of the camp circle, and stooping almost double, ran swiftly as a man runs who knows the end and purpose of his going.
Silverback turned his sardonic mug towards his ghoul-like neighbour, and with a twirl of his brush, as much as to say, 'I told you so,' stole out of the shadow of the little kopje and followed silently on the trail. With every hair on his bristly back standing up in unholy eagerness, with his one eye and his few remaining teeth staring with greed, the ancient reprobate grunted the magic word 'Man,' and hobbled cautiously after the jackal.... ”

“ I touch a whole man, fresh, that also might yet be living! Nay, nay, but do thou, who knowest not fear, make trial and see if he be really good corpse, and no longer two-legged demon, and I will withdraw a while and keep good watch at the hinder end.'
'Coward!' grumbled the jackal, watching him shrink to the outside of the Kopje. ”

“ I would sooner chase a young buck through the long night than eat a plaguey salt beast like mule.'
'Ow—ah,' sighed the hyæna, 'your Swiftness may indeed speak so, having legs of steel and jaws like cast-iron traps; but to one who has fasted these many days, being old and forsaken, mule and meer-cat 'tis all the same, it goes into the stomach—what more can I expect, who am old, and nigh to my end?' and he rolled his eye imploringly at Silver-back. ”

“ To this day, if you should chance to take Pietris Vanhiever with you on a shooting trip, do not over your camp fire discourse on native superstitions pertaining to the Karroo—it is calculated to upset an otherwise good hunter. ”

“ The long Englishman, glancing from side to side, rode carelessly and slowly along the track left by the broad wheels of the waggon. Once he unslung the Winchester he carried on his right arm, and fired two or three shots, but seemingly at random. The track took a sudden turn to the left, round a slight rise in the ground; once past, this he urged the grey into a canter, turning round in his saddle to see that he was not followed.
'Can't be seen from the waggon here,' he said to himself; 'not that it matters much, though—their manners are disgusting, and assuredly morals they have none. ”