Your heart beats fast; you feel as if you had enormous power, whereas you have no power at all.

There is something in the danger that pleases and thrills you." After passing under the smuggler's chain gate, his course ran between lines of hills which fringe the banks of the river.

He could see here and there on the slopes, an old woman with a cow.

Every cow seemed to have a woman attendant in that country.

Now and again one of them would catch sight of Paul as he sped along.