“Do you know I shall devour you here as a wolf devours a lamb.”
She heartily laughed, and showed her pretty little white teeth.
“Do you want to eat me?” she asked.
“Yes I even with the little bones.”
And he cast such a look at her that she melted under his glances. Then they lapsed into silence, only their hearts were beating intensely, his with desire, and hers with pleasurable intoxication tinged with fear.
But the Bohemian’s passion at first entirely prevailed over his tenderness, and when he said that he looked at Anulka like a wolf at a lamb, he told the truth. Only on that evening when he observed her eyelids and cheeks moistened with tears, his heart became softened She seemed to him as good, as though near to him and as though she were already his own, and as he himself was up
