This being has enough evil in his face to frighten even a strong man.

It is little wonder that the sight of it put that poor girl into a dead faint!" Nothing more could be done at the moment, so they separated.
Adam was up in the early morning and took a smart walk round the Brow.

As he was passing Diana's Grove, he looked in on the short avenue of trees, and noticed the snakes killed on the previous morning by the mongoose.
They all lay in a row, straight and rigid, as if they had been placed by hands.

Their skins seemed damp and sticky, and they were covered all over with ants and other insects.

They looked loathsome, so after a glance, he passed on.
A little later, when his steps took him, naturally enough, past the entrance to Mercy Farm, he was passed by the negro, moving quickly under the trees wherever there was shadow.