28/44 This was living, though he did not know it. He was realising his own meaning in the world; he was doing that for which he was made--killing meat and battling to kill it. He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do. He still held her by the wing, and they lay on the ground and looked at each other. He tried to growl threateningly, ferociously. |