Sax Rohmer,
Grey Face — Chapter 33
(1924)
“ A series of purple veils seemed to be raised one after another before his eyes; and, panting, shaken, he fell back again into the chair in the library, looking up to the quivering face of Dimitri who stood at his right, and thence to the pale terror-stricken countenance of Teak, who had sought to grasp him when in that agonized return from death to life he had leapt upright. ”
Sax Rohmer,
Grey Face — Chapter 33
(1924)
“ Slowly he turned, looking toward his open window through which sunlight streamed into the room. An uncanny memory had come to him—the memory, he determined, of some forgotten nightmare. It was that of a grey face, the face of a dead man, except that the eyes were alive and stared out like two points of light. Teak raised his hand to his close-cropped skull and then sat down on the side of the bed to consider this matter. He was not an orderly thinker, and for a long time he wrestled with a series of confusing ideas which suddenly had presented themselves to his mind. ”
Sax Rohmer,
Grey Face — Chapter 33
(1924)
“ But your lower nature, dominated by pride of will, conquered, and the seed never developed. A second time you passed through the gates of death, and here, on this spot, you were shown your end, the only end which can be to a conflict with God. You were watched; and the result is that a third time I come to you. "It is the last time. "The lower man, the creation of your own immense knowledge, will return again to the world you seek to remodel. ”
