She must be of some race, perhaps Semitic, perhaps Sclav--of some incomprehensible race.

I had never seen a Circassian, and there used to be a tradition that Circassian women were beautiful, were fair-skinned, and so on.

What was repelling in her was accounted for by this difference in national point of view.

One is, after all, not so very remote from the horse.

What one does not understand one shies at--finds sinister, in fact.