In a moment the air was filled with hideous howling, cries of unspeakable dismay, and the multitudinous noise of running feet.

The next moment, in at the door of the vault bounded Lina, her two green eyes flaming yellow as sunflowers, and seeming to light up the dungeon.

With one spring she threw herself at Curdie's feet, and laid her head upon them panting.

Then came a rush of two or three soldiers darkening the doorway, but it was only to lay hold of the key, pull the door to, and lock it; so that once more Curdie and Lina were prisoners together.
For a few moments Lina lay panting hard: it is breathless work leaping and roaring both at once, and that in a way to scatter thousands of people.

Then she jumped up, and began snuffing about all over the place; and Curdie saw what he had never seen before--two faint spots of light cast from her eyes upon the ground, one on each side of her snuffing nose.